Ram Madhav


Ram Madhav is an Indian politician who serves as the National General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a member of the National Executive of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and has authored few books. His latest is Uneasy Neighbours: India and China after Fifty Years of the War.

Early life

Madhav was born to Janaki Devi in Amalapuram in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on 22 August 1964. Primarily a student of engineering, he earned his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Andhra Pradesh. He has a post-graduate degree in Political Science from the University of Mysore, Karnataka.

Political career

Madhav's association with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh began as a teenager. He volunteered to be a full-time worker for RSS in 1981. He was assigned to several key positions in the organization.
during the launch of the book "The RSS" written by Walter K. Anderson and Sridhar D. Damle in New Delhi.
He was the editor of Bharatiya Pragna, a monthly magazine in English published by Pragna Bharati, and associate editor of Jagriti, a Telugu weekly. He worked as a journalist for over 20 years with RSS sponsored publications and authored more than twelve books. He serves as the Director of the India Foundation, an RSS-aligned think-tank focused on the issues, challenges and opportunities of the Indian polity. He is also a mentor at Vision India Foundation, a New Delhi-based think tank working on public leadership amongst youth
He served as the national spokesperson of the RSS from 2003–2014. Madhav was seconded to the BJP and appointed as one of its national general secretaries in 2014.,

Political positions

Foreign policy

He has called for India to take a more "proactive role in the region” in order to check China's One Belt One Road Initiative. He was involved in the BJP's entry to the International Democrat Union, a worldwide grouping of right of centre political parties.

Controversies

British anchor Mehdi Hasan's interview

On the talk show called Head to Head in Al Jazeera, a Qatari news channel, anchored by Mehdi Hasan on Hindu Nationalism, Ram Madhav's statement on to the British anchor with no apologies later, got condemnation from journalists. After the show, the anchor Mehdi Hasan stated that he was being called as ISIS supporter since then by internet trolls.

Books