Ramdas Bandu Athawale (born 25 December 1959) is an Indian politician, social activist, and senior Ambedkarite leader from Maharashtra.
He is the president of the Republican Party of India (A), a splinter group of the Republican Party of India and has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by B.
R.
Ambedkar.
Currently, he is Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment in the Narendra Modi government, and represents Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of India's Parliament.
Previously he was the Lok Sabha MP from Pandharpur.
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