He Returned From US To Serve India, Read In Details What Happens With Him

8th May 2026 at 8:18 PM

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Mumbai : When Ananthan Ayyasamy chose to leave behind a thriving life in the US and return to India, it was not a career move driven by ambition or necessity. A former Engineering Director at Intel in the US, a successful entrepreneur with achievements in technology and real estate, and an innovator with multiple patents to his name, Ayyasamy, a Tamil Nadu native, had everything many aspire to — professional success, financial security and a comfortable life abroad.

At 12, she could not fully grasp what that choice meant. She only knew that her father was going far away, chasing something bigger than himself. Years later, she finally understood the weight of that decision — and the sacrifice it demanded from both of them. Ayyasamy joined the BJP and was appointed district president of Tenkasi. He helped build bus shelters, restore a 100-acre pond, strengthen water bunds, remove invasive trees and plant thousands of palm saplings.

“It cost several ten lakhs of hard-earned money — just for this village alone. But more than money, it cost time, family moments and precious years watching my daughter grow up from far away,” he wrote in a deeply emotional social media post. Ayyasamy hoped his years of service would help his party politically. But when the election results came, the BJP and its alliance failed to win any Assembly seat in Tenkasi district.

His daughter called him on a video call and quietly asked: “Appa can you now tell me what exactly politics is?” “For the first time in my life, I did not have an answer for my chellaponnu (affectionate term used for girls in Tamil),” he wrote.