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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Tejaswini Ananth Kumar<br />
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| office1 = Vice-President of [[Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka]]<br />
| term_start1 = 2 April, 2019<br />
| birth_name = Tejaswini P .Oak<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|03|11|df=y}}<br />
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| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]<br />
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]<br />
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| occupation = Politician, Social Activist <br />
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| known_for = Adamya Chetana Foundation, Charity<br />
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Ananth Kumar]]|1989|2018|end=died}}<br />
| education = [[B.E]], PG in [[Indology]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[B.V.B. College of Engineering and Technology]], [[Bangalore University]]<br />
| parents = Prabhakar Oak<br/>(father),<br/>Pratibha Oak<br/>(mother)}}<br />
'''Dr. Tejaswini Ananth Kumar Oak''' is an Indian politician and social worker who is the current Member of the Karnataka Legislative Council from 18 June 2018. She is the Managing Trustee of the Adamya Chetana Foundation, a voluntary organisation based in Bengaluru.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.adamyachetana.org|title=Adamya Chetana – Anna Akshara Arogya|website=Adamyachetana.org|access-date=2018-11-21}}</ref> The key focus of this NGO is providing ''Anna-Akshara-Arogya (Food-Education-Health)'' to under-privileged children. She is a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].<br />
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She is also the vice president, BJP Karnataka.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/india/tejaswini-ananth-kumar-appointed-karnataka-bjp-vp-after-being-denied-ls-ticket-from-bluru-south/articleshow/68688569.cms?from=mdr|title=Tejaswini Ananth Kumar appointed Karnataka BJP VP after being denied LS ticket from B'luru South}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
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She was very active at all levels of [[Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad]] (ABVP) organizing various student activities. She served as State Joint Secretary & National executive member of ABVP.<br />
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Between 1988 and 1993, she worked as a Software Engineer in Bengaluru, Lecturer at BMS college of Engineering and Lecturer at SDM college of Engineering.<br />
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She worked as a scientist at ADA (then headed by [[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam|Dr APJ Abdul Kalam]]) between 1993 – 1997 and on the LCA – Tejas project.<br />
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==Social Work==<br />
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She along with her husband, [[Ananth Kumar]], founded Adamya Chetana Foundation, a nonprofit organisation for social service. It was setup in 1998 in memory of Girija Shastry, mother of Ananth Kumar.<ref name="AK">{{cite web | url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/union-minister-ananth-kumar-dies/articleshow/66583345.cms | title=Ananth Kumar: Union Minister Ananth Kumar passes away | publisher=[[The Economic Times]] | work=K R Balasubramanyam | date=12 November 2018 | accessdate=12 November 2018}}</ref> It supports underprivileged children with food in schools through the mid-day meals programme.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adamyachetana.org/|title=Adamya Chetana – Anna Akshara Arogya|website=Adamyachetana.org|accessdate=14 October 2018}}{{Self-published source|date=November 2018}}</ref> About 2,00,000 meals are served daily.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/our-annapoorna-kitchens-are-paathshaalas-prayogashaalas-too/articleshow/56284474.cms|title='Our Annapoorna kitchens are paathshaalas, prayogashaalas too' - Times of India|website=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com|accessdate=14 October 2018}}</ref><br />
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Since 2006, Tejaswini is a Founder Trustee of Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation, 250 bedded state of art charitable hospital, a not for profit organisation with its core focus on cure and prevention of Cancer.<br />
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