Lok Sabha Election 2019: Former President Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan's grandson to join BJP ahead of 2019 polls
Ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the grandson of former President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Subramanyam Sharma G is all set to join the Bhartiya Janata Party on Republic Day. Subramanyam will join the Karnataka BJP, confirmed the party on Friday.
He will be joining the party in the presence of state BJP chief Bss Yeddyurappa at the party headquarters after the Republic Day celebrations. 44-year-old Subramanyam Shamra Gouravaram contested the Karnataka Assembly election in 2018 from Malleswaram constituency, with an aim to erase "inequality" in the state. He had represented the All India Mahila Empowerment Party.
"The inequality between rich and the poor is widening in society, someone has to balance it through the system, into which I want to enter and usher in equality,” he said before last year's assembly poll.
His family-owned Sudeeksha Group is into diverse businesses spanning pharmacy, infrastructure, movies and dairy farming. "I originally come from a family of academicians, and not politicians," Mr Sharma said.
Sharma’s grandfather, Dr Radhakrishnan was the second President of India from 1962 to 1967. Sharma is also related to V.V. Giri, who was the fourth President from 1969 to 1974, from his father's side.
