Bandi Sanjay Kumar

Some Lesser Known Facts About Bandi Sanjay Kumar

• He joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh when he was twelve years old.

• When he was in college, he was part of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and worked as the town president and a state executive member of the organization. He was also the town secretary, town president, national secretary of Kerala and in charge of Tamil Nadu for the organization.

• From 1994-2003, he served as Director of The Karimnagar Co-operative Urban Bank.

• In 1996, Bandi helped in campaigning for BJP leader LK Advani‘s Surat Rath Yatra for 35 days.

• In 2019, when he won the General elections, many people thought that his win was shocking because his opponents were politically stable. He became one of four Bharatiya Janata Party MPs from Telangana.

• In 2020, when the film RRR was announced, Sanjay threatened S. S. Rajamouli and said that his party workers would burn the theatres which will broadcast the movie. He demanded that the character of Komaram Bheem should not be seen wearing a Muslim outfit in the film. In his defence, Rajamouli said that the picture was based on Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju‘s character but was not a biopic. Later in 2023, when the song ‘Natu Natu’ from the film RRR won the Oscar award, he congratulated the makers on Twitter.

  

• In November 2022, he filed a petition in the High Court after the police denied him permission for the fifth phase of his ‘Praja Sangrama Yatra’ and a public meeting in the Bhainsa town of Nirmal district. According to the police, the reason to stop him was the communally sensitive situation in the area. To stop him from going for the yatra, police personnel were posted near his house in Karimnagar. After the incident, he took to Twitter and posted that he would take the matter to court.

  

• In January 2023, his elder son Bhageerath was accused of assaulting a student at his university. He was later released on bail.