Meet Sunil Deodhar, the BJP leader who helped saffron brigade vanquish Manik Sarkar’s Left in Tripura

Meet Sunil Deodhar, one of BJP’s heroes in Tripura, who like many of his party men rose through the ranks of the RSS to eventually become a party backroom general

Unlike many of his political colleagues and rivals in Tripura, Deodhar was born and raised in Maharashtra before making his way to the northeastern state.

According to The Print, if the BJP’s score-card in Tripura is spectacular, he is the man of the match. “In the true style of the RSS, a single-minded worker you haven’t seen grand-standing on TV channels, or setting Twitter on fire,” the report added.

Deodhar joined the RSS in 1985 and in 1991 was posted as a pracharak in Meghalaya.

He started My Home India, an organisation that helps students from the Northeast across the country. In 2012, he was given charge of Dahod district in the Gujarat assembly polls and in 2013, of South Delhi during the Delhi state elections.

In the 2014 Indian general election, Deodhar was appointed as the campaign manager to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency of Varanasi. Following this, he was given the responsibility to handle Tripura in November 2014, a state where the party had no seats and a negligible presence. …read more