R. Ashoka (Kannada:ಆರ್.ಅಶೋಕ) is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka. Currently he is serving as the Minister for Home and Transport in the Government of Karnataka. He represents the Padmanabha Nagar constituency in Bangalore. He belongs to the Vokkaliga community.

Shri R. Ashoka was an active worker of the RSS from his student life, and developed leadership qualities during his college days itself. During Emergency (1975-77), he was arrested and was kept in prison with senior leaders like L.K. Advani at the Central Jail in Bangalore. He was first elected to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly in the 1997 by-Elections from Uttarahalli Constituency, which was the biggest state legislature constituency in Asia. He was re-elected from the same constituency in 1999 and 2004 general election. He was also associated with the youth wing of the party in his younger days.

As Minister of Transport in the Yeddyurappa Government from 2008 onwards, he has been instrumental in modernizing the entire Transport department and also using innovative hi-tech methods to automate the working of the department. Under his leadership, the transport department has come up with some advanced public transport vehicles with reasonable rates for the benefit of the public and Issue of bus passes and concessions for the deserving candidates has been made simple.