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Dakshina Kannada Dakshina Kannada district is a district of Karnataka state in India, with its headquarters in the coastal city of Mangalore. It is part of the larger Tulu Nadu region. The district covers an area nestled in between the Western Ghats to its east ...

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, 1namedata1 = B. Y. Vijayendra Nalin Kumar Niranjan Shetty Kateel (born 7 December 1966) is an Indian politician who is the current and 9th State President of Bharatiya Janata Party of Karnataka since from 20 August 2019 and

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from Dakshina Kannada constituency since from 2009.

Political career

Nalin Kumar Kateel
started his social and political life when he became a ''Prachark'' (full-time member) of

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organisation at the age of 18 for a period of 12 years. After his father's death, he took over the responsibility of managing his family affairs, agriculture, and also started his professional career as a civil contractor. Later he joined the

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and rising through the ranks became District general secretary of the party in the year 2004, the office of which he still holds. In the year 2009 he was elected to the

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, the lower house of India's Parliament the Sansad. He was re-elected as MP in the 2014 elections for the second term. On 20 August 2019, he was appointed the state unit president of the

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Kar ...

BJP to replace B. S. Yediyurappa who had become the chief minister. As Member of Parliament Nalin Kumar Kateel has Participated in 45 Debate and raised 687 questions.

Controversy

* On 5 August 2019, a

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court issued an arrest warrant against him for an inflammatory speech. On June 3, 2017, Kateel had made a provocative speech in a protest held in front of Konaje police (under

Mangaluru Mangalore (), officially known as Mangaluru, is a major port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bangalore, the state capital, 20 km north of Karnataka–Ker ...

city police) station. *On May 14, 2014 Sathish Shetty, a resident of Beverly Park, Thane logged an FIR against Nalin Kumar accusing him of having “an illicit relationship with his wife Vinutha. Nalin Kumar Kateel denied the allegations saying it is a political conspiracy to damage his image politically. A FIR was registered in

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City police station. *BJP Yuva Morcha expressed anger towards the inefficiency of the MP towards development work and also towards inaction of the police investigation in the death of the Yuva morcha leader and gheraoed and pushed his car almost endangering his life. However, his team later floated that there is a conspiracy to malign his image hence the anger of BJP workers was purposely created, they said in a media briefing.

Position held

References

* The Hindubr>Nalin Kumar Kateel Humbles Poojary
17 May 2009 *IBN Liv

*Newskarnataka.co

18 June 2015

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kateel, Nalin Kumar India MPs 2009–2014 Mangaloreans People from Dakshina Kannada district 1966 births Living people Lok Sabha members from Karnataka India MPs 2014–2019 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Karnataka India MPs 2019–present