[2] His daughter, Chukki, lives in Mysore and runs Amrita Bhoomi, an agricultural school, started by him.
[1] As president of the KRRS, he led campaigns against agricultural patenting by multi-national corporations, which he called "Western biopiracy".
He also led the ransacking of newly-opened Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in Bangalore.
[2][1] The KRRS was later registered as a political party and was instrumental in supporting non-Indian National Congress governments in Karnataka.
[11] On his birth anniversary on 13 February 2023, Yogendra Yadav, founder of Jai Kisan Andolan, remembered Nanjundaswamy and delivered a speech about the farmers' movement led by him in Chamarajanagar, where a main road in the district headquarters was named after him.