Yashomati Thakur is an Indian lawyer turned politician and member of the Indian National Congress (INC).
Wiki/Biography
Yashomati Chandrakant Thakur was born on Friday, 17 May 1974 (age 48 years; in 2022) in Mojari, Amravati district of Maharashtra. He studied LLB from Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh College of Law, Amravati University (2002). His zodiac sign is Taurus. Yashomati entered politics after the death of her husband.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′ 4″
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
Family
Parents & Siblings
His father, Chandrakant Thakur (fondly referred to as Bhayyasaheb Thakur), was a politician who represented the Teosa State Assembly constituency as an independent candidate in 1978 and as a member of the INC in 1980. He died in 2018 due to kidney disease. His mother’s name is Pushpamala Thakur.
Yashomati Thakur with her parents
He has a younger sister, Sanyogita Naik Nimbalkar, who is also a politician.
Sanyogita Nimbalkar with her husband, Satyajeet Nimbalkar
Husband & Son
Her husband is dead. His daughter’s name is Akanksha Tai, and his son’s name is Yashwardhan Tai.
Pictures of Yashomati Thakur with her son and daughter
Career
Yashomati Thakur entered politics as a member of the Indian National Congress (INC). In 2004, he contested the Maharashtra Assembly Elections for the first time from Teosa (also known as Tivsa) constituency in Amravati district, but he lost the election; BJP candidate Sahebrao Thatte won the seat. She held the post of General Secretary of the Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress from 2004 to 2009. At the same time, she worked as a member of the state women’s commission. After that, he joined Rahul Gandhi’s youth brigade, where he was given the responsibilities of Gujarat, Daman and Diu, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. He has served as Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee Secretary, All India Congress Committee Secretary, and Maharashtra State Congress President. He contested and won the Teosa Assembly seat in the 2009 Maharashtra Assembly Elections, defeating Shiv Sena candidate Sanjay Band by 26,130 votes. He was re-elected as MLA from Teosa in 2014 and 2019. On 30 December 2019, he was sworn in as the Cabinet Minister of the Ministry of Women and Child Development in the Uddhav Thackeray-led Mahavikas Aghadi Government; he served in this capacity till 29 June 2022. In 2018, the Congress appointed Yashomati as the party secretary for Karnataka. On 16 December 2019, he was appointed as the President of the Vidhansabha Talika by Nana Patole for the winter session of the Maharashtra Assembly held in Nagpur Vidarbha. As an MLA in the Government of Maharashtra, he was the Caretaker minister of Amravati District (2020-2022).
Controversy
2012 Police Assault Case
Yashomati Thakur and three others, including her driver, were sentenced to three months by a sessions court in Amravati for allegedly assaulting a policeman in Amravati district in 2012. Subsequently, she filed an appeal in the high court against the conviction and sought suspension of the sentence by way of discharge temporary. The incident took place on March 24, 2012, in Chunabhatti area, which comes under Rajapeth police station limits in Amravati. Allegedly, Yashomati Thakur, her driver Sagar Suresh Khandekar, and party workers Sharad Kashirav Jawanjal and Raju Kisan Ingle, thrashed traffic police constable Ulhas Raurale when he stopped his vehicle from entering a one-way lane. In 2020, the court sentenced Thakur to three months imprisonment in the eight-year case and also imposed a fine of Rs. 15,500. He was fined the same amount by the district and session courts.
Others
Other charges brought against him include related charges of voluntarily causing hurt by a dangerous weapon, punishment for criminal threats, being a member of an unlawful assembly, rioting, etc.
Assets/Property
Movable Assets
- Deposits in Banks, Financial Institutions and Non-Banking Financial Companies: Rs. 4,40,995
- NSS, Postal Savings etc: Rs. 21,671
- Motor Vehicle: Rs 13,50,000
Immovable Assets
- Agricultural Land: Rs. 1,42,85,332
- Non Agricultural Land: Rs. 15,10,000
- Commercial Building: Rs. 5,95,00,000
- Residential Building: Rs. 93,33,333
Note: The estimate of movable and immovable assets given is in 2019. Movable assets do not include assets owned by the husband and his dependents. Immovable Assets refers to the assets owned by his Hindu Undivided Family.
Net worth
As of 2019, his net worth is Rs. 11,56,10,771.
Note: It does not include the net worth of the husband and his dependents but includes assets owned by his Hindu Undivided Family.
Facts/Trivia
- In the 2014 Maharashtra Assembly Elections, Yashomati Thakur contested against her younger sister Sanyogita Naik Nimbalkar, who contested the election as an independent candidate with the support of local organization Prahar. During the 2009 state assembly elections, Nimbalkar led Thakur’s campaign and contributed to his victory. While addressing the media, Nimbalkar, while expressing his disappointment with Thakur, said,
I campaigned for my brother during the 2009 election and thought he would bring development. But he didn’t do anything, so I decided to compete against him.”
- His other names include Yashomati Bhayyasaheb Thakur and Yashomati Tai Thakur.
- Like most Congress members, Yashomati is also a follower of Saint Tukdoji Maharaj. His father, Bhayyasaheb Thakur, was also influenced by Tukdoji Maharaj.
Categories: Biography
Source: SCHOOL TRANG DAI
