Sudheendra Kulkarni is a political activist and a columnist from India. He worked for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s main opposition party, for thirteen years. He headed the campaign office of Shri L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition (Lok Sabha, which is the Lower House of Indian Parliament) and prime ministerial candidate of the BJP and the National Democratic Alliance in the 2009 parliamentary elections. He was also a member of the BJP’s Election Strategy Group.
For six years (1998-2004), he worked as an Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to India’s former Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee. His principal work in the Prime Minister’s Office was in preparing speeches for the Prime Minister.