His original name- Venkatrao Khedgikar; Birth place- Gulbarga. Founder of Hyderabad State Congress- Swami Ramananda Tirtha He belonged to Aurangabad area. He took the pledge of renunciation and became an ascetic.
He started his political career on 9 June 1938.
After independence, he became a member of Lok Sabha in 1952 from Aurangabad constituency.
The announcement of launching of HSC was issued but no one was appointed as members or in key posts. The 2nd Maratha conference was held in June 1938 at Latur. Ramananda attended this He reached Hyderabad on 9 June 1938 and met local leaders. He established an ad hoc committee in July and selected 1200 members to HSC. So Ramananda is considered as the founder of Hyderabad State Congress. Hyderabad State Congress was founded on 29th July 1938 with the sole objective of conference. On the same day, Govindarao Nanal was elected as the President and H. Ramakrishna Dhooth was appointed as the Convener of the Provisional Committee. The Provisional Committee made an appeal to the people of Hyderabad Princely State to join Hyderabad I State Congress regardless of race, religion or caste and support the objective of establishing a responsible government.
The Committee decided to organize a general body meeting on 9th September 1938 to elect the Executive Committee (President, Vice President, Secretary) and to adopt the rules and regulations of the Committee.
