Diwakar Raote is a leader of Shiv Sena from Maharashtra.

On 5 December 2014 Raote took charge as the Cabinet Minister of Transport in Maharashtra Government.

[4] Earlier he was entrusted with the responsibility of establishing the organization in Marathwada after the party's decision in 1985 to expand to whole Maharashtra.

In Narayan Rane ministry, he was a cabinet minister of Revenue, Government of Maharashtra.

He belongs to the Panchkalshi, a scribal caste community of Hindu society in Maharashtra mostly found in Mumbai and the North Konkan region.