Swaraj Vidwan

Swaraj Vidwan is an Indian social worker and activist for the underrepresented.

Life She works with vulnerable and marginalised groups. Around 2000 she started her work looking after people in Uttarkashi.

On International Women's Day in 2015 she received the Nari Shakti Puraskar. She was one of the first eight Nari Shakti Awards for her leadership and achievement the year before. The award was made by the then Indian President Pranab Mukherjee.

Vidwan helps rape victims, particularly where she suspects that the police are ignoring cases where the victim is from a lower caste. In 2018 she and the National Commission for Scheduled Castes were interceding on behalf of a 16 year old rape victim. The man the police accused of the crime died in custody. Vidwan wanted the police person charged with murder as she suspected that the man's convenient death may be hiding the real rapists.

Politics Vidwan is affiliated with the Bharatiya Janata Party serves as General Secretary of the BJP Scheduled Caste Morcha.