Ram Madhav Profile
BJP Leader Ram Madhav was born to Janaki Devi in Amalapuram in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on 22 August 1964. He was born to Brahmin parents, both Jan Sangh workers with strong RSS links.
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.
Ram Madhav RSS
He decided to join the RSS full time when he was still in his teens and has never looked back. His ability to articulate the RSS viewpoint in a TV era and his relative lack of political ambition are cited by old BJP and RSS hands in Hyderabad to explain his meteoric rise.
His vigorous defence of Modi’s role in the 2002 riots brought him close to the then Gujarat CM Modi.
In 2003, Madhav was brought to Delhi from Andhra after a strong recommendation by former party president M. Venkaiah Naidu.
Sangh appointed him as the first and last official spokesperson of the RSS, a post the Sangh had never endorsed ever before, sticking to the concept of prasiddhi parimukta(avoiding publicity).
Once he moved to the capital and became the RSS national spokesman, he quickly developed and cultivated contacts in the media. He acquired a reputation for accessibility and affability.
Later he turned out to be a good media manager, arranging for interviews with RSS chiefs and articulating reactions of the Sangh.
Such has been Madhav’s connect with the national media that even when the Sangh later decided to put together a panel of spokespersons, the media still thronged to Madhav’s modest Jangpura flat in Delhi to collect soundbites and information on the goings-on.
Today, Madhav can not just boast of being a real globe-trotter but can even claim to have the widest circle of friends in the diplomatic corps in India and outside.
A feat no other RSS or BJP man can match. Some say it is to his credit that the RSS today is an organisation with a wide international network.
Ram Madhav BJP
Deputed from RSS to the BJP in July 2014, made party general secretary in August; RSS buffer among the big four: Modi, Rajnath, Jaitley and Sushma.
As director of India Foundation he networked with like-minded think tanks in Israel, Russian republics, Sri Lanka.
Has strong views on Islamic terror in Burma and Sri Lanka; in a 2014 book, suggests India and China “remain fierce competitors”. 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.
Ram Madhav Caste
He belongs to Brahim caste.