Sudhanshu Mittal is an Indian politician affiliated to the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

(BJP), who later became the official spokesperson of the party. He was in the 1979 batch of the St. Xavier's School, Delhi. He completed his B.Com. from the Shri Ram College of Commerce (1982 batch) and was President of the

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in 1981–82. Later, he took admission in the law college but dropped to support a family business.

Politics

Mittal is a member and official spokesperson of BJP. He was a confidant of

Pramod Mahajan Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan (30 October 1949 – 3 May 2006) was an Indian politician from Maharashtra. A second-generation leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he belonged to a group of relatively young " technocratic" leaders. At the time ...

, a senior BJP leader who died in 2006. Although described as a top contender for the party's

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parliament seat, Mittal was not selected to contest it in the 2014 general elections.

Sports

Mittal is a keen sportsman who excels in Badminton. He is a reputed sports administrator. Besides being Vice President of the India Olympic Association, he is also the President of Kho Kho Federation of India. He is credited with making kho kho an international game.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mittal, Sudhanshu People from Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Delhi Sudhanshu Mittal Delhi University alumni Shri Ram College of Commerce alumni Living people Presidents of Delhi University Students Union Indian sports executives and administrators 1959 births