Nitte Manjappa Adyanthaya is an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n politician

Politician

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 and trade union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

 leader affiliated with the Indian National Congress

Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

Biography

Born in a Bunt

Bunt (community)

Bunt , previously spelled Bant, are a community of erstwhile nobility, feudatory and gentry from the region of Tulu Nadu in the south west of India which comprises the districts of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada in the Indian state of Karnataka and Kasaragod taluk of Kerala...

 family belonging to the aristocratic Nitte

Nitte

Nitte is a village in Karkala taluk of Udupi a district in the Indian state of Karnataka. The village is on the way from Padubidri to Karkala. Its 8 km away from Karkala and 54 km from Mangalore. This place is well connected by buses frequenting one in 15 mins...

 Guthu clan.Adyanthaya

Adyanthaya

Adyanthaya is a Surname of the Bunt people who hail from the erstwhile South Canara District in Karnataka state, India. The word Adyanthaya is derived from Sanskrit meaning, the one who knows the beginning and the end. It is a rare and unique Indian last name with probably less than 300 families...

 entered politics when he joined the Indian National Congress.He was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from the Surathkal

Surathkal

Surathkal is a locality under Mangalore City Corporation located in the Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka state, India...

 constituency in 1985. He has also been actively involved in Trade union and labour right activism.Currently he is a Member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation,Member of India-Europe Civil Society,Spokesperson of Worker's Group, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour

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,Vice President - Indian National Trade Union Congress

Indian National Trade Union Congress

Indian National Trade Union Congress is the trade union wing of the Indian National Congress. It was founded May 3, 1947, and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, INTUC had a membership of 3892011 in...

(National),Trustee - New Mangalore Post Trust and President of the Indian National Trade Union Congress (Karnataka

Karnataka

Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...

State).

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