Ashok Dhawale (born 14 July 1952) is an Indian peasant leader and the National President of All India Kisan Sabha.

He is one of the leaders of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) which led a historic one-year long struggle that succeeded in getting the three Farm Laws repealed by the Central Government.

[3] Ashok Dhawale entered activism in 1978 through the Students Federation of India (SFI) while doing his Masters in Political Science from Bombay University.

[9] Ashok Dhawale is one of the leaders of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha that led the victorious one-year long farmers' struggle for the repeal of the three Farm Acts in 2020-2021.

In December 2021 he was elected as one of the members of the five-member committee of the SKM that held the final negotiations with the central government.

[9] He is also a Working Group member of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) which had organized huge farmers’ marches to Parliament in Delhi in 2017 and 2018.

In this capacity, he took the lead in initiating several struggles in Maharashtra on political, social and economic issues, and made efforts to build the unity of all Left, democratic and secular forces.

[12] Some of his earlier books are ‘The Kisan Long March in Maharashtra’,[13] ‘Shaheed Bhagat Singh – An Immortal Revolutionary’, ‘Comrade Godavari Parulekar – A Centenary Tribute’, ‘China – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’, and many others.