Vanathi Srinivasan

Vanathi Srinivasan
வானதி சீனிவாசன்
Assumed office
2014
General Secretary of Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party
Central Board of Film Certification
In office
2002–2005
Personal details
Born Vanathi Kandasamy
June 1970
Coimbatore
Nationality Indian
Political party Bhartiya Janata Party
Spouse(s) Sreenivasn
Residence Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Website Official website

Vanathi Srinivasan is a Tamil politician and lawyer. She currently serves as the General Secretary of Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party.

Education

Vanathi native of Thondamuthur village of Coimbatore District hails from a farmers family. She completed her bachelors in chemistry from the PSG Arts and Science College, Coimbatore and completed her Law Degree at Dr.Ambedkar Government Law College, Chennai. Then she completed her International-Constitutional Law, at the Madras University.

Career

Vanathi is a Lawyer by profession.[1] She started her professional career in 1993, Under Shri.B.S.Gnanadesikan, Senior Advocate (Formerly Tamil Nadu Congress Committee President), she started her professional world. she has been practicing in Chennai High Court for more than two decades now. In 2010, Vanathi was a special Invitee for US State Development for Young Leaders Programme. Vanathi was also a Standing Counsel for Southern Railway and Union Government, She was a former state secretary of BJP Tamilnadu and also severed as board member of Central Board of Film Certification.[2][3] She contested in 2011 & 2016 Tamil Nadu State Assembly election as BJP candidate.

2016 Assembly elections

Vanathi Srinivasan secured 33,113 votes in the Coimbatore South Assembly Election 2016.[4]

Family

Mr. Srinivasan, a prominent lawyer of Madras High Court, currently serving as Union Government’s Assistant Solicitor General in Madras High Court. Vanathi and her husband practiced law with Senior Advocate Prashant Bhushan in Supreme Court. They have two sons.

Social Activism

Vanathi Founded Thamarai Shakthi Trust – an NGO working for Women Empowerment. She was the State Organiser for Sister Nivedita 150th Birth Anniversary Celebrations.[5][6] Vanathi supported Asian games medallist Santhi Soundarajan's Justice for Santhi campaign to end the sex verification test for women in sports.[7] She also initiated water conservation projects in Coimbatore to protect the local water bodies.[8]

Vanathi openly supports the rights of gender and sexual minorities in India along with few of her political party members including Arun Jaitley. She launched the first book on LGBTQIA and Genderqueer in Tamil language penned by Gopi Shankar Madurai.[9][10][11][12]

References

  1. ↑ "TN BJP leader hosts chat shows on Facebook". The Hindu. May 23, 2016. Retrieved Jan 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Censor Board, News Today". News Today. Jan 19, 2015. Retrieved Sep 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Actor Surya held, out on bail". Deccan Herald. Aug 24, 2005. Retrieved Sep 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ "In Coimbatore, BJP performs better than DMDK-PWF-TMC". The Hindu. Sep 12, 2016. Retrieved Jan 26, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Sister Nivedita ratha yatra flagged off". The Hindu. 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  6. ↑ "SISTER NIVEDITA 150th Rath Yatra Team". www.nivedita150.com. 2018-01-12. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  7. ↑ Gopi Shankar Madurai. "Why India Must Not Fail Santhi Soundarajan". Swarajya. ,India. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  8. ↑ "Uliyampalayam pond fills up". The Hindu. 2017-04-23. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  9. ↑ "Meet the BJP leader who released a book on LGBT rights". The News Minute. 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  10. ↑ "It's a great honour to be awarded for book on gender variants: Gopi Shankar - Times of India". Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 2014-07-21. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  11. ↑ Ashok Row Kavi (2016-03-19). "RSS flip-flop on homosexuality indicates gay men in India remain in exile, writes Ashok Row Kavi". Firstpost.com. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  12. ↑ "BJP leader launches LGBT rights book in TN". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
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