Kummanam Rajasekharan

Kummanam Rajasekharan
കുമ്മനം രാജശേഖരൻ


President of BJP Kerala State
Personal details
Born	23 December 1952
Nationality	Indian
Residence	Mararji Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram
Alma mater	[CMS ,kottayam
Religion	Hinduism
Website	kummanam.info

Kummanam Rajasekharan (കുമ്മനം രാജശേഖരൻ ; born 23 December 1952) is an Indian politician and a leader of right-wing, Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation in India Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Sangh parivar in the state of Kerala. From 18 December 2015, he has been the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala.^[1]^[2] He participated in ‘movement against Nilakkal temple land encroachment’ and ‘Paliyam Declaration’^[3] pronounced by prominent Hindu religious scholars. In 1987, he resigned from the government service and became a full-time Pracharak of RSS, while instrumental in spearheading Kerala’s Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), Kshetra Samrakshana Samiti, Balasadanams, and Ekal Vidyalayas. As of 2013, he holds the responsibilities of Hindu Aikya Vedi Organisation-Secretary, Sabarimala Ayyappa Sewa Samajam, General-Secretary and Chairman of Janmabhumi daily.

Early life and education

Son of Late Advocate V K Ramakrishna Pillai & P Parukkutty Amma, Rajasekharan was born at Kummanam village of Aymanam in Kottayam district. After his schooling at his birthplace, he continued his studies at CMS College, Kottayam and graduated from there. Then he completed his post-graduate diploma in Journalism and joined in various periodicals to acquire experience in journalism. Kummanam Rajasekharan has the dis-reputation of being selected as the president of a state unit of a political party without even being a member of the party.

Professional career

Rajasekharan started his journalism career by joining Deepika daily, Kottayam in 1974. Later he played different roles in many dailies in Kerala. He was the Sub-Editor of Rastravartha daily, Kochi. He also took the role of Sub-Editor in Keraladesam daily, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Bhooshanam daily, Kottayam and Kerala Dhwani daily, Kottayam. In 1976, he took a short break from his journalism career and joined the Food Corporation of India, Kochi. In 1987, he resigned from this government job and became a Pracharak (full-time worker) of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS). He stays single and leads a life away from his immediate family. In 2012, he participated in the agitation against KGS Aranmula International Airport. Currently, he is the Chief Patron of Aranmula Heritage Village Action Council which protests against the said Airport.^[4]

Ideology and public roles

Ayyappa Seva Samajam -Sabari saranasramam

He came into contact with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh during his student days. In 1979, he became the district-secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and later was associated with many Hindu organisations in Kerala in various capacities.^[5]^[6]

In 1981, became State Joint-Secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
In 1983, was appointed as General-Convener of Nilakkal Action Council.
In 1985, became General-Secretary of Hindu Munnani (Hindu Front)
In 1987, he contested from Thiruvananthapuram constituency as Hindu Munnani candidate and reached second position in the election.
In 1988, he was appointed General-Secretary of Guruvayoor Temple Action Council and led agitation to take out Jacob Thampi from managing committee of Guruvayoor Temple.
In 1989, was appointed Editor of Janmabhumi daily, Kochi.
In 1992, was designated General-Convenor of Hindu Aikya Vedi.
In 1996, was appointed Organising-Secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad
In 1998, was appointed General-Convener of Sivagiri Samara Sahaya Samithi to assist the agitations led by Swami Prakashananda protesting against his removal from presidency of Sivagiri Madom.
In 2003, lead a mass agitation against the Marad communal violence.
In 2007, was designated as Managing Director of Janmabhumi daily.
In 2009, was selected as General-Secretary of Sabarimala Ayyappa Sewa Samajam.^[7]
In 2011, was appointed as Chairman, Janamabhumi daily.^[8]
In 2012, was appointed as Chief Patron (Mukhya Rakshadhikari) of Aranmula Heritage Village Action Council.
In 2015, was appointed as President, BJP Kerala State Unit from 18 December.

Marad massacre

On the evening of 2 May 2003, a group of fishermen, some of whom had been accused of involvement in an earlier communal attack in the area, were attacked by a mob of Muslims armed with swords. Nine people were killed in that communal violence. Many were seriously wounded. Mass protests were carried out by various Hindu organisations under the banner of the Hindu Aikya Vedi,against the violence. Kerala government decided to announce compensation for victims' families and ordered a judicial inquiry into the incident. As the General-Secretary of Hindu Aikya Vedi, RSS, Kummanam Rajasekharan played a significant role in these protests.^[9]

References

↑ http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=17&SKIN=A
↑ http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=10630
↑ http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19981220/35450384.html
↑ http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=16827
↑ "Kummanam Rajasekharan". Retrieved 21 December 2015.
↑ "India News, Latest Sports, Bollywood, World, Business & Politics News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
↑ "Sabarimala - Saranashramam". Sabarimala. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
↑ ജന്മഭൂമി. "About Janmabhumi Daily". ജന്മഭൂമി. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
↑ "The Hindu : Kerala News : Marad case: Kummanam refutes Antony's statement". Retrieved 21 December 2015.

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Sangh Parivar (RSS Family of Organisations)

Organisations	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Janata Party Swadeshi Jagaran Manch Bharatiya Kisan Sangh Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Vichara Kendra Vishwa Hindu Parishad Muslim Rashtriya Manch Rashtriya Sikh Sangat Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram Hindu Vivek Kendra Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Bajrang Dal Durga Vahini Hindu Munnani Seva Bharati Vidya Bharati Balagokulam Vivekananda Kendra Rashtra Sevika Samiti Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad Ekal Vidyalaya

Sarsanghchalak	Keshav Baliram Hedgewar (1925–1930 and 1931–1940) Laxman Vaman Paranjpe (1930–1931) Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar (1940–1973) Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras (1973–1994) Rajendra Singh (1994–2000) K. S. Sudarshan (2000–2009) Mohan Bhagwat (2009–present)

Other Major figures	Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Balkrishna Shivram Moonje Syama Prasad Mukherjee Deendayal Upadhyaya Prabhakar Balwant Dani Babasaheb Apte S. S. Apte Moropant Pingley Madhukar Rao Bhagwat Eknath Ranade H. V. Sheshadri Dattopant Thengadi Nanaji Deshmukh Atal Bihari Vajpayee Lal Krishna Advani Murli Manohar Joshi Jana Krishnamurthi Kushabhau Thakre Narendra Modi Arun Jaitley K. N. Govindacharya Rama Jois Bal Thackeray Swami Karpatri Chinmayananda Saraswati Ashok Singhal Giriraj Kishore Praveen Togadia Ram Madhav Ramchandra Das Paramhans

Independent authors	Sita Ram Goel Ram Swarup Girilal Jain Dharampal Ram Gopal Balraj Madhok Raj Krishna Harsh Narain Swaraj Prakash Gupta Ramesh Nagaraj Rao Malati Shendge Arun Shouri Abhas Chatterjee K. S. Lal N. S. Rajaram David Frawley Koenraad Elst François Gautier Christophe Jaffrelot Rajiv Malhotra K. D. Sethna Subhash Kak Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti D. P. Agrawal Rajiv Dixit

Philosophy	Hindutva Hindu nationalism Gandhian socialism Integral humanism Akhand Bharat Uniform civil code Indigenous Aryans

Hindu nationalism	Hindutva Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad Bengali Hindu Homeland Movement Bangabhumi Hindu Rashtra Panun Kashmir Banga Sena

Topics	Persecution of Hindus Shuddhi Ram Janmabhoomi Shah Bano case Ghar Wapsi

Bharatiya Janata Party

Presidents	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) Lal Krishna Advani (1986–91) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Lal Krishna Advani (1993–98) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Lal Krishna Advani (2004–06) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–present)

Current Vice Presidents	Satya Pal Malik Parsottambhai Rupala Prabhat Jha Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Renu Devi Dinesh Sharma Om Prakash Mathur Shyam Jaju Avinash Rai Khanna

Other prominent leaders	Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Yashwant Sinha Subramanian Swamy Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Sushil Kumar Modi Himanta Biswa Sarma

Prime Ministers	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi

Current Chief ministers	Vijay Rupani Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Laxmikant Parsekar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das Sarbananda Sonowal

Spokespersons	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Siddharth Nath Singh Nalin Kohli Shaina NC Sambit Patra Anil Baluni GVL Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal

General Secretaries	P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Muralidhar Rao Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh

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Related organisations	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh

Others	Hindutva Integral humanism

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