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Bandi Sanjay Kumar

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Who is Bandi Sanjay Kumar?

Bandi Sanjay Kumar is an Indian politician and BJP leader. He is currently serving as Union Minister of State for Home Affairs and is a member of Parliament from Telangana’s Karimnagar constituency.
 
The 1971 born leader has a Masters degree in Public Administration from Madurai Kamraj University.
 
He has been associated with RSS from an early age and he is known as a firebrand leader.
 
He was first elected to Lok Sabha in 2019. In 2023, he became the state president of the BJP in Telangana but he resigned later in the same year and was appointed as the National General Secretary for BJP.

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