Sunil Kanugolu is an Indian political strategist and tactician. In April 2022, the Indian Nationwide Congress formally introduced that Kanugolu accepted the supply to supervise their election campaigns in numerous states of India. In Could 2022, Sonia Gandhi named him as a member of Congress’ 2024 Lok Sabha polls process power.
Wiki/Biography
Sunil Kanugolu was born in Bellary, Karnataka, India. He pursued a bachelor’s diploma in expertise at Anna College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He accomplished his main education at Bellary, Karnataka. He accomplished a Grasp of Enterprise Administration (MBA) at New York College, New York, USA. He holds a Grasp in Finance (MS) diploma from New York College, New York. Though he was born in Bellary, Karnataka, to a Kannadiga father and a Telugu mom, he grew up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Bodily Look
Top (approx.): 5′ 6″
Weight (approx.): 70 kg
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
Household
Dad and mom & Siblings
His dad and mom’ names weren’t identified. His brother’s title is Sushil Kanugolu. He was a businessman and based Fipola, the fashionable meat retail firm, in 2016.
Sushil Kanugolu
An Commercial of Fipola
Spouse
His spouse’s title is just not identified.
Profession
Election Campaigns
He labored carefully with Narendra Modi in 2010 and was related to Modi’s election campaigning through the 2012 Gujarat Legislative Meeting election. Forward of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Sunil labored carefully with Prashant Kishor, who masterminded the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s election campaigns and methods; Sunil was Prashant’s shut support. The election-campaign group named Residents for Accountable Governance (CAG) was created by Prashant forward of the 2014 Lok Sabha election and campaigned for the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP). CAG’s social campaigns, such because the Chai pe Charcha and 3D rallies, helped the BJP to bolster their vote share and public approval. BJP registered a landslide victory within the 2014 Lok Sabha election owing to Prashant’s and Kanugolu’s data-driven analytic discipline surveys and engineering; they helped construct Modi because the supreme chief of the BJP and popularised his picture all through the nation.
{A photograph} of a wall portray celebrating the victory of the BJP
The BJP was tremendously inquisitive about their companies and wished them to go the election campaigns for the legislative meeting elections in a number of Indian states reminiscent of Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, and Karnataka; nonetheless, Prashant left the BJP in 2015 as a result of variations of opinion with the celebration excessive command. Later, the BJP management entrusted Sunil because the in-charge for the state meeting elections. In October 2016, he created the Affiliation of Sensible Minds (ABMs) on the request of the BJP management forward of the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Meeting election. Some reviews instructed that the ABM was constructed to problem Kishor and the Indian Political Motion Committee (I-PAC); Residents for Accountable Governance (CAG) was renamed as I-PAC in 2015 following Kishor’s exit from the BJP. ABM carried out surveys and voter profiling of constituencies and spearheaded the election marketing campaign for the BJP. The BJP recorded a large victory within the election and received 325 seats. The Indian Nationwide Congress celebration appointed Prashant as their election strategist for the 2017 UP legislative meeting election.
{A photograph} of Amit Shah and Narendra Modi attending a BJP assembly through the 2017 UP election marketing campaign
Sunil helped BJP counter their former affiliate’s ways and established himself as one of many high election strategists within the nation with the BJP’s unprecedented victory. Kanugolu carefully labored with the Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Okay. Stalin and strategized for the Dravida Munnetra Kazagham (DMK) celebration within the 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Meeting election. DMK received 89 seats of the 178 they contested with an improved margin of 66 seats in comparison with the earlier election; nonetheless, the DMK+ allies carried out poorly and did not win the bulk. However the Namakku Naame marketing campaign was an enormous success, serving to Stalin to say his place as one of many outstanding leaders in Tamil Nadu politics amid veteran leaders reminiscent of J. Jayalalithaa and M. Karunanidhi. Some reviews instructed Sunil assisted the DMK through the 2017 Jallikattu protests to counter the BJP with campaigns impressed by Tamil pleasure and the Dravidian mannequin. Later, he labored collectively with Amit Shah and was the chief strategist for the BJP through the legislative meeting elections within the states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Karnataka. BJP loved a snug victory within the 2018 Karnataka legislative meeting election. The saffron celebration’s thumping victory was referred to by many as the results of the pollster’s relentless groundwork and motion plans.
{A photograph} of BJP supporters attending the election marketing campaign assembly
Kanugolu was a detailed affiliate with the then-president of the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering, Amit Shah; they labored collectively between 2014 and February 2018. In line with some reviews, Kanugolu was a detailed affiliate of the then-president of the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering, Amit Shah; they labored collectively between 2014 and February 2018. The pollster was the command-in-chief of the BJP’s election campaigning in a number of states, reminiscent of Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, and Karnataka, all of which the BJP received. In 2018, he parted methods with the ABM; he stop reportedly as a result of ideological variations between him and the BJP management. Sunil masterminded the Dravida Munnetra Kazagham’s election methods forward of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. DMK and the Secular Progressive Alliance emerged victorious within the Lok Sabha elections. DMK fielded 20 candidates, and all of them emerged victorious.
{A photograph} of the DMK chief M. Okay. Stalin assembly the voters through the 2019 Lok Sabha election marketing campaign
He terminated his companies with the DMK celebration forward of the 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Meeting election. Some reviews instructed that the pollster was upset when DMK appointed Prashant Kishor to spearhead their election marketing campaign. Though a number of the DMK leaders tried to persuade him to work alongside Kishor, he reportedly knowledgeable the celebration it was inconvenient for him and left DMK. Later, AIADMK secured his companies for the 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Meeting election and received 66 seats. In 2022, Sunil reportedly labored with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) through the 2022 Punjab Legislative Meeting election; nonetheless, Akali Dal confronted a large setback battle and solely received three seats. The Indian Nationwide Congress (INC) management first tried to rent Sunil because the celebration’s election strategist in 2021. The official announcement of Kanugolu becoming a member of the Congress got here in Could 2022 after prolonged discussions and conferences. Some reviews instructed that the INC approached Sunil Kanugolu after Prashant Kishor snubbed the Congress’ supply to affix the celebration on 26 April 2022.
{A photograph} of Sunil Kanugolu (excessive proper) attending a Congress conference
Quickly after becoming a member of the celebration, he was given cost of organizing and analyzing election campaigns for the upcoming legislative meeting elections; nonetheless, it was rumoured that the INC secured his companies to enhance their possibilities within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Some reviews instructed that Kanugolu got here up with the thought of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, which occurred between 7 September 2022 and 30 January 2023. Sunil’s Mindshare Analytics reportedly began their groundworks and surveys one yr forward of the 2023 Karnataka legislative meeting election. The election focus factors for the INC have been unemployment, corruption, and Kannada pleasure. His PayCm, Kivi Mele Hoova, and 40% Fee Sarkara marketing campaign resonated properly among the many public. To counter the narrative of the BJP leaders, who claimed that corruption was not an enormous situation in South India, he launched the PayCM marketing campaign. The Congress management and followers pasted QR codes with the {photograph} of the BJP’s chief minister, Basavaraj Bommai in numerous components of the state. Anybody who scanned the code was then taken to the 40% Sarkara web site, which accused the BJP authorities of charging 40% fee on public works.
{A photograph} of D. Okay. Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah with different Congress leaders through the PayCM marketing campaign
The Congress launched the ‘5 ensures’ launched by Sunil and his group following the success of their earlier campaigns. The 5 ensures have been Gruha Jyothi (200 items of free electrical energy monthly), Gruha Lakshmi (Rs. 2,000 monthly for every lady who was the pinnacle of the household), Anna Bhagya (10 kg of rice monthly for all of the members of a BPL household), Yuva Nidhi (Rs. 3,000 to unemployed graduates and Rs. 1,500 to unemployed diploma holders aged between 18 and 25 will likely be paid monthly for 2 years), and Uchita Prayana (Free journey for girls in strange public transport buses throughout Karnataka). These guarantees have been extensively promoted among the many public and attracted their curiosity.
A poster of the Congress’ 5 ensures
Reportedly Congress experimented and was extremely influenced by the intensive discipline survey reviews and suggestions other than their approach of swaying into the penchants of their native leaders forward of the 2023 legislative meeting election in Karnataka. They took solutions from the pollster and finalized their listing of candidates primarily based on his group’s assessment. Though the BJP’s star campaigners toured the state, together with the frequent visits of PM Modi, Amit Shah, JP Nadda and different outstanding BJP-RSS leaders, the BJP suffered a surprising setback through the 2023 legislative meeting election in Karnataka. The INC singlehandedly received 135 seats below the election ways of Sunil.
Controversies
Police raids at his workplace in Hyderabad
In November 2022, some complaints have been lodged towards Sunil with the Hyderabad Police for allegedly sharing derogatory posts on social media towards the Telangana Chief Minister Okay. Chandrashekar Rao, his household and the ruling BRS authorities. The petition towards Sunil was filed after a parody video from the Telugu basic movie Mayabazar, by which the photographs of the Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrasekhar Rao, his daughter, Okay. Kavitha, and his son, Okay. T. Rama Rao, have been superimposed and was posted on the Fb web page Telangana Galam; the video went viral. Okay. Kavitha was the then Member of the Legislative Council who represented the Nizamabad constituency within the Telangana Legislative Council. Okay. T. Rama Rao was the then Minister for Data Know-how, Electronics and Communications, Municipal Administration and City Improvement, Industries and Commerce. Later, the police raided Kanugolu’s workplace and seized numerous digital units utilized by his group. Whereas chatting with the reporters after the raids, one officer said that the derogatory posts in regards to the CM and his household have been shared from the IP deal with near Kanugolu’s workplace.
{A photograph} of the police raiding Sunil Kanugolu’s workplace
Police arrested three staffers working on the time within the workplace and took them into custody; nonetheless, they have been later let off. On 24 November 2022, he was charged below Sections 469 and 505(2) of the IPC and was served a discover below Part 41A of the Code of Felony Process (CrPC). Later, he submitted a petition within the Telangana Excessive Court docket to nullify the FIR registered towards him and likewise the discover issued below Part 41A of the CrPC; nonetheless, the Excessive Court docket rejected his attraction on 3 January 2023 and ordered him to seem earlier than the Hyderabad Police and help them with the investigation course of, the Court docket additionally ordered the Hyderabad Police to not use any coercive measures towards him. On 9 January 2023, Sunil appeared earlier than the police for questioning, accompanied by the Congress chief Anil Kumar Yadav. The police officers grilled him for about three hours, with Kanugolu’s statements recorded. Some reviews instructed that he denied any connections with the video and gainsaid the allegations that the parody video was his creation to insult the chief minister’s household.
A snippet of the information protection towards the raids on Sunil Kanugolu’s workplace
The pollster, whereas being questioned by the police, notified them that he was not personally concerned with the operations on the workplace of Congress’ election struggle room in Madhapur, Hyderabad, and he labored from Delhi. Sunil notified the police that the then Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee senior vp Mallu Ravi was answerable for the Congress’ election struggle room workplace in Madhapur, Hyderabad, and the campaigns and actions have been carried out below his steering. Media personnel have been ready for him exterior the police station; nonetheless, he remained silent and averted their questions. The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee and the All India Congress Committee expressed their considerations over the appaling raids and chastised the ruling celebration’s actions. The Congress leaders alleged that the federal government was restraining democracy within the state. They added that the opposition events who raised the issues of the strange individuals intensified the ruling celebration’s concern of dropping within the upcoming polls, which made the federal government use its power to intimidate the opposition events.
Info/Trivia
- In 2009, Sunil shifted from New York to Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The pollster briefly labored with the worldwide administration consulting agency McKinsey & Firm prematurely of his profession as a political strategist in Indian politics.
- He follows a non-vegetarian weight-reduction plan.
- Some reviews instructed Sunil was very media-shy and barely appeared within the mainstream media. He has no official social media presence. They added that he most well-liked working as a backroom strategist over having fun with the limelight. There have been some situations the place some well-known media homes wrongfully uploaded an image of his brother, Sushil Kanugolu, instead of him. Though many others got here ahead and identified the error, no official clarification or assertion was given by Kanugolu. Kanugolu’s former colleague, Leah V, shared a submit on social media in Could 2023 and identified that the image utilized by many standard media was that of the pollster’s brother.
A snippet of the social media submit shared by Sunil’s pal
- He can converse in additional than seven languages, reminiscent of English, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, and Gujarati.
- Periyar, an Indian social activist and politician, profoundly influenced Sunil. Periyar, who challenged gender and caste discrimination, and fought for girls’s rights in Tamil Nadu, was referred to as the Father of the Dravidian motion.
The {photograph} of a stamp which was launched as a tribute to Periyar
- Kanugolu was an ardent fan of Tamil cinema.
- In line with some reviews, Kanugolu was completely impacted by completely different caste actions within the nation, on a regular basis caste discrimination, and using social organizations to counter them and enhance the lives of marginalized individuals.
- Kanugolu was related to and held directorship in three corporations, SR Impartial Fisheries Pvt Ltd, SR Naturo Meals Pvt Ltd and Brainstorm Innovation and Analysis Pvt Ltd (BSIR).
- The then Karnataka chief minister and BJP strongman, Basavaraj Bommai, tried to sway Sunil again into the BJP fold in 2022 when information of him becoming a member of the Congress broke out. Sunil oversaw the BJP’s election marketing campaign in Karnataka through the 2018 legislative meeting election; nonetheless, the pollster denied the supply and reiterated his dedication to the INC.
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