Ramdas Athawale

Ramdas Bandu Athawale (born 25 December 1959) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is the president of the Republican Party of India (A). 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.