# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/athawale-ramdas-bandu
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:28:05.963Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/athawale-ramdas-bandu"
name: "Athawale Ramdas Bandu"
slug: "athawale-ramdas-bandu"
description: "Ramdas Bandu Athawale is an Indian politician, social activist and trade unionist from Maharashtra. Since 1999, he is the president 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. Since 2016, he has served as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India and represented Maharashtra in the 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."
tagline: "Indian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ramdas_Athawale.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1959-12-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/ramdasathawale"
    handle:    "ramdasathawale"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump