Sulekha Kumbhare

Sulekha Narayan Kumbhare (born 1962) is an Indian politician, lawyer and Ambedkarite-Buddhist activist.

She is founder and president of the Bahujan Republican Ekta Manch.

She served as cabinet minister from 1999 to 2014 in the Government of Maharashtra.

[1] Kumbhare was member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (1999 to 2004) from the Kamthi constituency in Nagpur district as Republican Party of India.

[5] She is an Ambedkarite, and spends the rest of her life in propagating Buddhism.