The Karnataka Legislative Assembly election of 1999 took place in October 1999 in 224 constituencies in Karnataka, India.
 The elections were conducted to elect the government in the state of Karnataka for the next five years.
 The Indian National Congress secured a huge majority winning 132 seats.
 The National Democratic Alliance composed of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (United) faction was a distant second winning only 63 seats.
 The Janata Dal (Secular) faction of former prime minister Deve Gowda also bit dust winning only 10 seats.
 The election was held simultaneously with the Lok sabha elections.
 The Janata Dal government collapsed in mid-1999 owing to a split in the Janata Dal.
 The Chief minister J.H.Patel and many other prominent leaders joined the Janata dal (United) faction and along with Ramakrishna Hegde allied with the Bharatiya Janata Party where as the former prime minister Deve gowda and his associates including the deputy chief minister Siddaramaiah joined the Janata dal (secular) faction.
 Owing to the anti incumbency against both the factions of JD, the Congress won handsomely.
 S.M. Krishna of the Congress was sworn in as Chief minister on 11 October 1999.
The Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS), commonly known as the Jan Sangh, was an Indian nationalist political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the political arm of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu right-wing organisation.
 In 1977, it merged with several other left, centre and right parties opposed to rule of the Indian National Congress and formed the Janata Party.
 After the Janata Party split in 1980, it was re-formed as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1980, which is currently India's largest political party by primary membership and representation in Lok Sabha.
Tapir Gao (born 1 October 1964) is an Indian politician.He is the President of Arunachal Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party.
 He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India, representing the Arunachal East constituency of Arunachal Pradesh and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
 Gao was General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party in 2011 & Gao is currently National Executive Member of BJP.
Tamilisai Soundararajan is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party in India.
 She is the current president of the Party’s Tamil Nadu unit.
 She was a National Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party prior to this appointment.
 She started as local medical wing secretary of the party and rose through the rank to hold the current position.
 She is the daughter of Kumari Anandan, senior congress party leader in Tamil Nadu.
Subramanian Swamy (born 15 September 1939) is an Indian economist, mathematician and politician who serves as a Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
 He was the President of the Janata Party until it merged with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
 Swamy has served as a member of the Planning Commission of India and was a Cabinet Minister in the Chandra Shekhar government.
 Earlier in November 1978, Swamy was member of the Group of Eminent persons and was called to Geneva, Switzerland to prepare a report of the United Nations (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)) on Economic Co-operation between Developing countries (ECDC).
 Swamy also simplified trade procedures and formulated a new export strategy which became the forerunner of trade reform adopted subsequently.
 In 1994, Swamy was appointed as Chairman of the Commission on Labour Standards and International Trade by former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao.
The Indian general election, 1977 polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 39 seats in the state.
 The result was a big victory for Indian National Congress under Indira Gandhi and its allies Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Communist Party of India winning 34 seats, while Janata Party and its allies Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Indian National Congress (Organisation) won only 5 seats.
 The Janata Party ended up winning this election.
 After the election, the ADK ended up supporting the Janata Party under Morarji Desai.
 In 1979, ADK continued to support Janata Party, by supporting Charan Singh, which resulted in the appointment of two ADK cabinet members.
in 1977 election to Bihar Vidhan Sabha Janata Party secured 214 our of total 325 seats.
 Karpoori Thakur was elected as leader of Janata party legislature defeating Janata party chief Satyendra Narain Sinha and was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bihar on 24 June 1977.
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P. Mohammad Ismail is an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly.
 He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as a Janata Party candidate from Padmanabhapuram constituency in Kanyakumari district in 1980 election.
 He was the Tamil Nadu Janata Party president during 1980-1984.
 He was one among the 9 Janata Party parliamentary committee members during the early 1980s.
 He unsuccessfully contested the 1991 and 1996 parliamentary elections as a Janata Dal candidate from Nagercoil constituency.
Jual Oram (born 22 March 1961) is a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India.
 He represents the Sundargarh constituency of Odisha and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
 He was also a member of the 12th, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha.
 He was chosen as one of the Cabinet Ministers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
 He is a former Cabinet Minister in the Government of India.
 He is now the Vice-President of the Bharatiya Janata Party and is one of the party's senior most leaders from the State of Odisha, being one of two founding Legislative Assembly Members from the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state of Odisha.
 He has served as the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state of Orissa for over four years.
Academic Hinduphobia: A Critique of Wendy Doniger's Erotic School of Indology is a 2016 collection of essays written and published in the early 2000s by Rajiv Malhotra "critiquing Western Indology and discussing a wide range of challenges confronting Hinduism, India and the world," published by Voice of India.
 The book was inaugurated by Dr. Subramanian Swamy at an event at India International Centre at New Delhi on 10 July 2016.

Question: What position in the Janata Party did the man who inaugurated Academic Hinduphobia hold?
Answer: President