Prakash Yashwant Ambedkar (born 10 May 1954), popularly known as Balasaheb Ambedkar, is an Indian politician, writer and lawyer. He is the president of

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called

Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh The Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (IAST: Bhāripa Bahujana Mahāsaṅgha; BBM) was an Indian political party founded by Prakash Ambedkar on 4 July 1994. The party was a splinter group of the Republican Party of India and had its roots in the Sched ...

.Biographical Sketch of Member of 13th Lok Sabha
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(MP). He is a 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 ...

, first

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. He was a member of the 12th and

13th Lok Sabha The 13th Lok Sabha (10 October 1999 – 6 February 2004) is the thirteenth session of the Lok Sabha (House of the People, or lower house in the Parliament of India). It was convened after 1999 Indian general election held during September–Oc ...

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. Ambedkar has twice represented the Lok Sabha constituency of

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. He has served in both houses of the

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Personal life

Prakash Ambedkar is the grandson of

, and Ramabai. His father's name is Yashwant Ambedkar (Bhaiyasaheb) and mother's name is Meera. The Ambedkar family are followers of

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. He has two younger brothers Bhimrao & Anandraj 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 ...

. Prakash Ambedkar is married to Anjali Maydeo and they have a son named Sujat.

Activities

Organized different mass rallies at national level after the ''

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'' march case, Rohith Vemula suicide case, Ambedkar Bhavan demolition case, Unna Dalit atrocity case and

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case. Prakash Ambedkar attracted controversy and criticism after he threatened the

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anchor Anand Narsimhan to physically harm the anchor by saying that he would think what he could do to him if the governance gets changed.

References

External links

Parliament Biography

75 Years of Poona Act
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ambedkar, Prakash Yeshwant Living people India MPs 1999–2004 Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha 1954 births Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh politicians People from Akola district Politicians from Mumbai Lok Sabha members from Maharashtra Indian Buddhists 20th-century Buddhists 21st-century Buddhists Republican Party of India politicians Prakash Yeshwant Dalit politicians