Ramdas Athawale

Ramdas Athawale
Ramdas Athawale
	Athawale in 2018
Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 5 July 2016
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Minister	Thawar Chand Gehlot (till 2021); Virendra Kumar Khatik (from 2021)
Preceded by	Manikrao Hodlya Gavit
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 3 April 2014
Chairman	Mohammad Hamid Ansari; Venkaiah Naidu; Jagdeep Dhankhar; C. P. Radhakrishnan;
Preceded by	Prakash Javadekar
Constituency	Maharashtra
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
	In office; 6 October 1999 – 16 May 2009
Preceded by	Sandipan Thorat
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	Pandharpur, Maharashtra
	In office; 10 March 1998 – 26 April 1999
Preceded by	Narayan Athawale
Succeeded by	Manohar Joshi
Constituency	Mumbai North Central, Maharashtra
Maharashtra Minister of Social Welfare, Transport, Sports and Youth Welfare, and Employment Guarantee
	In office; 1990–1995
Chief Minister	Sharad Pawar; Sudhakarrao Naik
Member of Maharashtra Legislative Council
	In office; 1990–1996
President of Republican Party of India (A)
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 25 May 1999
Preceded by	Office established
Personal details
Born	Ramdas Bandu Athawale; 25 December 1959; Agalgaon, Maharashtra, India
Party	Republican Party of India (A) (since 1990)
Other political; affiliations	National Democratic Alliance (since 2014); Republican Party of India (until 1990)
Occupation	Trade unionist; social worker;

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Ramdas Bandu Athawale (Marathi pronunciation: [aːʈʰʋəle]; born 25 December 1959) is an Indian politician, social activist and trade unionist from Maharashtra. He is the president since 1999 of the Republican Party of India (A), a splinter group of the Republican Party of India, which has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. Currently, he is the Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India since 2016 and represents Maharashtra in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of India's Parliament since 2014. Previously, he was Lok Sabha MP from Pandharpur from 1999 to 2009 and from Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha constituency from 1998 to 1999. He was also Cabinet minister of Maharashtra from 1990 to 1995 and a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council from 1990 to 1996.