He is the chief and co-founder of the Bhim Army,[1] and the National President of the Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram).

[2] Chandrashekhar Azad was born on 3 December 1986, in Dhadkuli village near Chhutmalpur in Saharanpur, Western Uttar Pradesh.

[3] Growing up in a Dalit family, Azad experienced caste-based discrimination, which influenced his early interest in social justice and advocacy.

Azad came to prominence as a Bahujan leader after he installed a hoarding titled The Great Chamars of Ghadkhauli Welcome You on the outskirts of his village.

[7][8][9] Azad, Satish Kumar, and Vinay Ratan Singh founded Bhim Army in 2014, an organisation that works for the emancipation of Dalits through education in India.