Waman Meshram started contemplating to join public life when he still was in Baba Saheb Ambedkar college at Aurangabad in the early 1970s.

He and his organisation Bharat Mukti Morcha(BMM) launched a five-phased protest campaign across the country from March 2017 demanding for discontinuing electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the electoral process in India.

Meshram stated that he had filed a petition against the Election Commission of India(EC) asking it to attach Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in the EVMs but it is being delayed deliberately.

"The election commission in a reply to my letter said that the Central government is not providing funds to attach VVPAT machines, but the EC is an autonomous institution.

[5] In June 2022, Naveen Jaihind an organization burnt effigy of Waman Meshram in Rohtak, Haryana for giving statement against Hindu gods and Brahmin.