Nalin Kumar Kateel
Constituency: Dakshina Kannada

Born/Date of Birthday: 7 December 1966
Place of Birth: Mangaluru, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka, India
Political party: Bharatiya Janata Party
Educational Qualifications: Matriculate
Educated at: St. Philomena High School, Puttur, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka
Profession: Builder
Marital Status: Married
Date of Marriage: 02 May 2001
Spouse's Name: Smt. Sridevi N Shetty
No.of Daughters: 2
Parents: Late Shri Niranjan Shetty, Smt. Sushila N Shetty
Permanent Address: No. 201, Ashoka Apartment, (Near Daiwajna Kalyana Mantapa), Hoigebail Road, Ashok Nagar, Mangalore - 575006, Karnataka

Nalin Kumar Niranjan Shetty Kateel (born 7 December 1966) is an Indian politician who is the current and 9th State President of Bharatiya Janata Party of Karnataka since from 20 August 2019 and Member of Parliament from Dakshina Kannada constituency since from 2009.

Political career
Nalin Kumar Kateel started his social and political life when he became a Prachark (full-time member) of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu Nationalist organisation at the age of 18 for a period of 12 years. After his father's death, he took over the responsibility of managing his family affairs, agriculture, and also started his professional career as a civil contractor. Later he joined the Bharatiya Janta Party and rising through the ranks became District general secretary of the party in the year 2004, the office of which he still holds. In the year 2009 he was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's Parliament the Sansad. He was re-elected as MP in the 2014 elections for the second term.

On 20 August 2019, he was appointed the state unit president of the Karnataka BJP to replace B. S. Yediyurappa who had become the chief minister.

As Member of Parliament Nalin Kumar Kateel has Participated in 45 Debate and raised 687 questions.

Controversy
On 5 August 2019, a Bengaluru court issued an arrest warrant against him for an inflammatory speech. On June 3, 2017, Kateel had made a provocative speech in a protest held in front of Konaje police (under Mangaluru city police) station.
On May 14, 2014 Sathish Shetty, a resident of Beverly Park, Thane logged an FIR against Nalin Kumar accusing him of having “an illicit relationship with his wife Vinutha. Nalin Kumar Kateel denied the allegations saying it is a political conspiracy to damage his image politically. A FIR was registered in Mangalore City police station.