Kamleshwar Dodiyar

Kamleshwar Dodiyar (born 1990) is an Indian politician from Madhya Pradesh. He is a member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Sailana Assembly constituency, which is reserved for Scheduled Tribe community, in Ratlam district. He won the 2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, representing the Bharat Adivasi Party. He is the only non-BJP and non-Congress MLA in the 16th Madhya Pradesh Assembly.

Early life and education Dodiyar is from Sailana, Ratlam district, Madhya Pradesh. His father Onkarlal Dodiyar is a farmer. He completed his L.L.B. in 2023 at Delhi University, Delhi. Earlier, he did B.A. in 2013 at a college affiliated with Vikram University, Ujjain. His wife runs her own small business. He travelled to Vidhana Sabha in Bhopal on his motorcycle from his constituency after winning the election to attend his first session in the assembly. He contested the 2018 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from the same seat as an independent candidate but lost the poll, coming third to winner Harsh Vijay Gehlot of the Congress and Narayan Maida of BJP, who came second.