K. Annamalai


Kuppusamy Annamalai is a former IPS officer who served as a Superintendent of Police in Udupi, and Chikkamagaluru district and Deputy Commissioner of Police in Bengaluru Karnataka. He quit his professional life and embarked We The Leaders Foundation. He is also a fan of Narendra Modi.

Early Life and Education

K Annamalai was born in Karur district of Tamil Nadu, belongs to the family of agriculture background. He did his schooling in Karur and Namakkal District and pursued his Under Graduate Degree, Bachelor of Engineering Mechanical Engineering at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu. Following that, Annamalai completed his Master of Business Administration with a specialization in Marketing and Strategy at Indian Institute of Management , Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

Personal Life

He entered Civil service and served in various locations for the period of almost 10 years. K Annamalai resigned in June 2019.
He is now the founder of We The Leaders Foundation and also the founder and course architect of Core Talent and Leadership Development Private Limited. He is very much interested in entrepreneurship and his favorite hobby is reading World and Indian History, cycling, and mountaineering.

Political life

Annamalai has also been tremendously influenced by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. According to MyNation by Asianet News, while he was posted in Chikkamagaluru, he had become closer to CT Ravi and had a better understanding of RSS ideology. In his last posting as DCP South in Bengaluru, he met with the RSS leaders in their headquarters at Keshava Krupa, which also happens to be in South Bengaluru. Annamalai not yet met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah and it is revealed by him in one of his interview with news channel in Tamilnadu.

Police career

Annamalai is known for his work as part of the police force and has also been called as “Karnataka Singham”. He was a 2011 batch IPS officer and he started his police career as the Assistant Superintendent of Police, Karkala sub-division in Udupi district of Karnataka in September 2013 where he was later promoted in 1st of January, 2015 as a Superintendent of Police in the same location and served there as an SP till August, 2016. He was then transferred to Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka and continued as an SP till October 2018. He got promoted as a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru south in 2018.

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