Mohan Madhukar Rao Bhagwat (IPA: [moːɦən mədʱukəɾ(ə)ɾaːʋ bʱaːɡʋət̪]; (IPA: [moːɦən mədʱukəɾ(ə)ɾaːʋ bʱaːɡʋət̪]); born 11 September 1950) is an Indian veterinarian who is the 6th and current Sarsanghchalak (Chief) of the right-wing nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh since 2009.

Mohan Madhukar Bhagwat was born in a Marathi Karhade Brahmin family in Chandrapur, then in the state of undivided Madhya Prdesh in present-day Maharashtra.

[1] His father Madhukar Rao Bhagwat was the Karyavah (secretary) for the Chandrapur zone and later a Prant Pracharak (provincial promoter) for Gujarat.

[1] After working underground during the Emergency, Bhagwat became the Pracharak of Akola in Maharashtra in 1977 and rose within the organisation responsible for Nagpur and Vidarbha regions.

He was further promoted as Akhil Bharatiya Pracharak Pramukh (in-charge of RSS volunteers working full-time for India).

[1] In June 2015, due to a high threat perception from various Islamic terrorist organisations,[5] the Government of India ordered the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to provide Bhagwat with round-the-clock protection.