Ananth Kumar’s journey from ABVP to Union Minister position
Bengaluru, November 12: Ananth Kumar was one among those who toiled hard in organizing the BJP in the state, has marched from ABVP secretary to Union Minister position.
1982-85: ABVP state secretary
1985-87: ABVP National Secretary
1987-88: BJP state secretary
1988-95: BJP state general secretary
1995-98: BJP national secretary
1996: Elected to Lok Sabha from Bengaluru South for the first time
1996-97: Member of Industrial Advisory Committee and Railway Standing Committee
1998: Re-elected to Lok Sabha for second time
1998-1999: Union Civil Aviation Minister
1999: Additional charge of Union Tourism Minister
1999: Re-elected to Lok Sabha for third time
1999-2000: Union Minister for Culture and Youth Service
2000: Along with Culture, he shouldered Tourism ministry
2000: Urban Development, Poverty Eradication and Rural Development Ministry
2003: BJP state president
2004: Re-elected to LS for the fourth time from Bengaluru South
2004-08: Parliament Steel Committee chairman
2004: BJP national general secretary
2005: Member of Joint Parliamentary Committee on Profitable Posts
2007: Parliament Standing Committee on Finance chairman, Sessions Advisory Committee member
2009: Re-elected to LS for the fifth time
2009: Chairman, Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizer
2009: Member of Privileges and Rules
2010: Chairman, Committee on External Affairs
2014: Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers in Modi government. He also handled additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs Ministry
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NATO, others turn down US call for help in Hormuz: Trump
Washington (PTI): President Donald Trump on Tuesday said NATO and most of US' other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz as the war with Iran entered the third week.
In a social media post, Trump asserted that Iran’s military has been “decimated” and he no longer felt the need for assistance from NATO countries or anyone else.
Last week, Trump had sought help from European nations and others who depend on oil supplies transiting from the Hormuz Strait to safeguard the critical waterway.
“The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon,” the US President said in a post on Truth Social.
Iran's attacks on Gulf nations and its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil is transported, have sparked increasing concerns of a global energy crisis and are unnerving the world economy.
“I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one-way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need,” Trump said.
He said Australia, Japan and South Korea too have turned down his call for help.
“Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military – Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again,” Trump said.
He said that given the scale of recent military successes, the US no longer "need" or desires assistance from NATO countries, adding that it never relied on such support in the first place.
Speaking as President of the United States, the "most powerful" country in the world, "we do not need" help from anyone, Trump said.
The West Asia conflict began on February 28 when the US-Israeli combine conducted airstrikes on Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, has effectively been shut following the US and Israel attack on Iran and Tehran's sweeping retaliation.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said that from Tehran's "perspective", the strait is "open". "It is only closed to Iran's enemies, to those who carried out unjust aggression against our country and to their allies.”
Earlier in the day, a second Indian-flagged LPG tanker, Nanda Devi, reached the country after safely sailing from the war-hit Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, the first ship, Shivalik, reached Mundra port in Gujarat.
As of now, 22 Indian vessels remain on the west side and two on the east side of the strait.
Indian authorities are in constant touch with all the relevant stakeholders in the region to secure the safe passage of the remaining ships, officials said.
