Kshitij Thakur is an Indian

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

. He currently holds the office of

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for the constituency of

Nala Sopara Nala Sopara or Nallasopara (Pronunciation: aːla sopaɾa formerly known as Sopara or Supara, is a town within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. The town lies in the Palghar district of Maharashtra, India and is governed by Vasai-Virar Municipal ...

in the state of

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. He is the son of

Hitendra Thakur Hitendra Vishnu Thakur (born 3 October 1961) is an Indian politician from Virar, Maharashtra, India. He is the president of Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi, political party in the Vasai-Virar region of Maharashtra, India. He is the incumbent Member of ...

, four times MLA from

Vasai Vasai (Konkani and Marathi pronunciation: �əsəi formerly and alternatively Mahratti; ''Bajipur'', English: Bassein; Portuguese: Baçaim), is a historical place and City near Mumbai (Bombay)'s western suburbs, located in Palghar district w ...

. He belongs to the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi party which has a strong base in the region of Vasai and Virar in

Palghar Palghar () is a town in the Konkan division of Maharashtra state, India and a municipal council. It is in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, and since 2014 it has been the administrative capital of the Palghar district. Palghar lies on the Weste ...

(formerly part of

Thane Thane (; also known as Thana, the official name until 1996) is a metropolitan city in Maharashtra, India. It is situated in the north-eastern portion of the Salsette Island. Thane city is entirely within Thane taluka, one of the seven talukas ...

) district of

. Thakur was suspended from the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from 20 March 2013 to 31 December 2013 for beating up a policeman inside the premises of the state assembly. He was married on 29 January 2012 in Virar. Thakur has been awarded for his contribution as a Young and Dynamic Philanthropist in year 2019.

Early life and education

Kshitij Thakur was born on July 10, 1983 in Virar area of Palghar district, Maharashtra, India to politician and Vasai MLA Hitendra Thakur. His political party, Bahujan Vikas Aghadi, of which

is the president, currently holds majority in the Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC), Vasai Taluka Panchayat Samiti and various Gram Panchayats in the region.

Political career

Early Political Career

Kshitij Thakur's father,

was the M.L.A. of the region for four consecutive terms, the first as a candidate of the Indian National Congress and the next three as an independent candidate. Thakur began his political career in 2009. The Vasai constituency was split into two—Vasai and Nallasopara. He contested from the Nallasopara constituency from the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi, led by his father Hitendra Thakur. At the age of 26, he was elected with a margin of more than 40,000 votes. His opponents, Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navanirman Sena, received second and third highest votes respectively. The feat made him one of the youngest members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.

Vidhan Sabha Elections

In the 2009 Maharashtra state assembly elections, Hitendra Thakur stepped down voluntarily to make way for his son to enter Indian politics. After delimitation, the Vasai constituency was divided into Vasai and

. Kshitij Hitendra Thakur is one of the youngest members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. In his first election Kshitij Thakur won with a margin of more than 40,000 votes. He got 89,284 votes, while his opposition

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena ( IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a right-wing to far-right Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray. Originally emerging from nativist movements in Bom ...

candidate Shirish Chavan got 48,502 votes. MNS aspirant Vivek Keluskar got 20,749 votes. In 2014, he defeated the BJP's Rajan Balkrishna Naik, who got only 59,067 votes as against Thakur’s 1,13,566 votes. Thakur had won the 2014 elections by a margin of 54,499 votes.

Assets and Liabilities

According to his election affidavit filed with the State Election Commission for the 2014 Maharashtra Assembly Elections, his total assets were worth and his liabilities ran into .

References

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