Hitendra Thakur (Marathi:???????? ?????,(?????) born: 3 October 1961) is an Indian politician from Virar, Maharashtra, India. He is the president of Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi, a political party in the Vasai-Virar region of Maharashtra, India.
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Political life
Thakur started his political career in 1988 when elected the President of the Vasai Taluka Youth Congress; 2 years later in the Maharashtra State Assembly elections in 1990, he was elected MLA for Vasai-Virar from the Indian National Congress at the age of 29. Later he formed his own political party now known as Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi and won 3 subsequent elections as well.
He is also close to former Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh. A number of people in the constituency praise Thakur for solving their immediate problems, for example, water tankers are arranged by Thakur for people in his constituency who live in areas facing water shortage. The water tanker is operated by water mafia.. Waste water is filled from nearby area and supplied to housing societies.
His political party, Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi (BVA) currently holds majority in the Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC), Vasai Taluka Panchayat Samiti and various Gram Panchayats in the region. Despite having no legitimate role, he continues to control the election of the Thane Zilla Parishad and the Thane Zilla Co-operative bank. As such he helped Vasant Davkhare get the post of Deputy Chairman of the Maharashtra Legislative Council three times and Govinda (a Bollywood star and a close friend) win the Mumbai North seat in 2004 General elections.
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Criminal cases and financial assets
As per his own affidavits filed as a candidate in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, 2014, Thakur has 8 criminal cases against him (7 where charges are framed, 1 where cognizance is taken, 0 where convicted). He and his spouse have assets of over INR100 crore (US$15 million), and liabilities of over INR18 crore (US$2.7 million).
As of October 2014, Hitendra Thakur has over INR19 crore (US$2.8 million) of movable assets, over INR71 crore (US$11 million) of immovable assets, and over INR12 crore (US$1.8 million) of liabilities. His wife has over INR3 crore (US$450,000) of movable assets, over INR4 crore (US$600,000) immovable assets, and over INR6 crore (US$890,000) of liabilities.
Other controversies
On 3 July 2009, the Government of Maharashtra had issued a notification for inclusion of 53 villages in the newly formed Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation. However 49 of the 53 villages had opposed the merger citing environmental and heritage issues and refused the move by forming the Gao Bachao Andolan Samiti under the guidance of Vivek Pandit, longtime opposition candidate of Hitendra Thakur.
Personal life
Thakur was born on 3 October 1961 in Virar , district Palghar (formerly Thane district) in Maharashtra, India in a middle class Hindu Maratha Maharashtrian family. He did his schooling in Virar and later graduated from the Vartak College in Vasai. While studying in the Vartak College, Vasai, he was elected at the post of general secretary of the student council.
In mid-2009 his elder son, Kshitij Thakur won Nalla Sopara seat. His wife Pravina Thakur is first woman Mayor of Vasai-Virar as his party swept the Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation polls by winning 106 seats.and is graduated from London school of business.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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