Anandraj Yashwant Ambedkar (born 2 June 1960) is an Indian social activist, engineer and politician from

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

. He is head of the Republican Sena (tran: The "Republican Army"). He is the grandson of

B. R. Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served a ...

, the father of the

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. His supporters occupied the Indu Mill land at

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in 2011 to highlight the long-pending demand for the Statue of Equality memorial of

. Anandraj Ambedkar also works in the

Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi The Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi (translation: Deprived Majority Front; VBA) is an Indian political party founded by Prakash Ambedkar on 20 March 2018. The party is primarily based in Maharashtra state. History and background On 1 January 20 ...

, headed by his elder brother

Prakash Ambedkar Prakash Yashwant Ambedkar (IAST: Prakāśa Yaśavanta Āmbēḍakar) (born 10 May 1954), popularly known as Balasaheb Ambedkar, is an Indian politician, social activist, writer and lawyer. He is the president of political party called the Van ...

Life

The

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are followers of

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. He has two brothers

and Bhimrao Ambedkar, and a sister Ramabai who is married to

Anand Teltumbde Anand Teltumbde (born 15 July 1950) is an Indian scholar, writer, and civil rights activist who is a management professor at the Goa Institute of Management. He has written extensively about the caste system in India and has advocated for the ...

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