Bandi Sanjay Kumar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary and Karimnagar MP, officially assumed his role as Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs on Thursday, June 13.

The tilak-sporting Kumar, who seems set for a ministerial role in the BJP, was an RSS volunteer and an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) student leader in his early days.