Atmaram Parmar

{{Short description|Indian politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use Indian English|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Atmaram Parmar

| office = Cabinet Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment , Women and Child Welfare

of Gujarat Government

| term_start = 7 August 2016

| term_end = 25 December 2017

| constituency = Gadhada

| office2 = Minister of Social Welfare, Gujarat Government

| term_start2 = 2007

| term_end2 = 2012

| constituency2 = Gadhada

| office3 = Deputy Speaker of Gujarat Vidhansabha

| term_start3 = 25 February 2015

| term_end3 = 6 August 2016

| constituency3 = Gadhada

| office4 = Deputy Chief Whip of Gujarat Vidhansabha

| term_start4 = May 2014

| term_end4 = February 2015

| constituency4 = Gadhada

| office5 = MLA

| term_start5 = 10 November 2020

| constituency5 = Gadhada

| term_start6 = 1995

| term_end6 = 2002

| constituency6 = Gadhada

| term_start7 = 2007

| term_end7 = 2017

| constituency7 = Gadhada

}}

Atmaram Makanbhai Parmar is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Gujarat. Currently, he is an MLA from Gadhada Vidhansabha. He was Cabinet Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment (including Welfare of Scheduled Castes, and Welfare of Socially and Economically Backward Classes), Women, and Child Welfare in the First Vijay Rupani Ministry from 2016 to 2017. He was also the State Social Welfare Minister in the Narendra Modi Government from 2007 to 2012. He was also Deputy Speaker of the Gujarat Vidhansabha from 25 February 2015 to 6 August 2016. [https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/atmaram-parmar-elected-as-deputy-speaker-of-gujarat-assembly-115022501225_1.html BJP's Atmaram Parmar elected as deputy Speaker of Gujarat][https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/gujarat-education-minister-at-felicitation-of-exorcists-982217-2017-06-12 Ghost of Gujarat present: BJP ministers meet 100 exorcists, hail them 'worshippers of the divine'][https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/2-gujarat-ministers-at-event-honouring-exorcists-shake-hands-with-them-1710860 Gujarat Ministers Enjoy Black Magic Show, Call It 'Divine Worship'][http://myneta.info/Gujarat2017/candidate.php?candidate_id=3792 Myneta]