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ravi shankar prasad

Ravi Shankar Prasad is an Indian politician and a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He currently serves as the Communications Minister of India, which includes the Telecommunications Department and the Department of Post. He is also the head of Law and IT Ministry.

Earlier in the first Modi government, he was the Union Minister holding Law and Justice and Electronics and Information Technology of India. As of 2018, he is also a designated senior advocate in the Supreme Court.

Since 1980, Prasad has been practising law at the Patna High Court and was designated senior advocate in 1999. In 1982, Prasad married Maya Shankar, who works as a Historian and Professor at the Patna University. The couple have a son and a daughter.

As a lawyer, Prasad has argued several high profile cases, including the PIL against former CM of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav in the fodder scam case, which led to the imprisonment of Lalu and several other politicians.
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