Nalin Kumar Kateel
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Nalin Kumar Niranjan Shetty Kateel ( , born 7 December 1966) is an India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n politician and a Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
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 who represents the Dakshina Kannada constituency
Dakshina Kannada (Lok Sabha constituency)
Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka state in southern India. This constituency came into existence following the delimitaion of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008.-Assembly segemnts:...

 of Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...

 in the 15th Lok Sabha
15th Lok Sabha
Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected in 2009 during the General Elections in India.- Important members :* Speaker: Meira Kumar, Indian National Congress, Sasaram, Bihar...

 and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party ,; translation: Indian People's Party) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Established in 1980, it is India's second largest political party in terms of representation in the parliament...

.

Early life

Kateel was born in a Bunt
Bunt (community)
Bunt , previously spelled Bant, are a community of erstwhile nobility, feudatory and gentry from the region of Tulu Nadu in the south west of India which comprises the districts of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada in the Indian state of Karnataka and Kasaragod taluk of Kerala...

 family of landlords to Nedyodiguttu Niranjan Shetty Kateel(Father) and Susheelavathi Shetty(Mother).After Completing his Matriculation
Matriculation
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,he left his education midway to look after the family business after his father's death

Political career

Nalin Kumar Kateel started his social and political life when he becoming a Prachark (full time member) of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS),a Hindu Nationalist
Hindu nationalism
Hindu nationalism has been collectively referred to as the expressions of social and political thought, based on the native spiritual and cultural traditions of historical India...

 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 Bharatiya Janta Party 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 Lok Sabha
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...

,the lower house of India's Parliament the Sansad.
Official website: http://nalinkateel.com/

Reference

  • The Hindu
    The Hindu
    The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Chennai since 1878. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1.46 million copies as of December 2009. The enterprise employed over 1,600 workers and gross income reached $40...

    ,Nalin Kumar Kateel Humbles Poojary May 17, 2009
  • IBN Live,Nalin Kumar Kateel Statistics
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