In 1979, Kumar was appointed as a Professor at Havanur Law College, which known as the Socio-Legal Services and Research Centre College of Law. Kumar, who was a young lawyer, taught all 18 subjects prescribed to about 330 law students in the college.
In 1980, Prof Nanjundaswamy started the farmers’ movement called Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha and Kumar was one of the founders. The movement threw open big legal challenges, prompting Kumar to file cases everyday. He would file an average of 25 cases on behalf of the farmers each day.
At the same time, Havanur as Law Minister and Social Welfare Minister had enacted a legislation called PTCL Act or the Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prohibition of Transfer of Certain Lands) Act, 1978, aimed at restoring granted lands to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The newly-enacted law opened floodgates for cases, and Kumar, being a legal advisor of the Dalit Sangharsha Samiti, handled such cases.
Source: Barandbench