Yashomati Thakur is an Indian advocate, politician, and member of the Indian National Congress (INC).
Wiki/Biography
Yashomati Chandrakant Thakur was born on Friday, May 17, 1974 in Mojali, Amravati District, Maharashtra (48 years old; as of 2022). She pursued LLB (2002) from Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Law School, Amravati University. Her zodiac sign is Taurus. Yassomati became involved in politics after the death of her husband.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′4″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Her father, Chandrakant Thakur (fondly known as Bhayyasaheb Thakur), was a politician who represented Teosa parliamentary constituency as an independent candidate in 1978 and became an INC member in 1980. He died of kidney disease in 2018. Her mother’s name is Pushpamala Thakur.
Yashumati Thakur and her parents
She has a sister, Sanyogita Naik Nimbalkar, who is also a politician.
Sanyogita Nimbalkar and her husband Satyajeet Nimbalkar
husband and children
Her husband has died. Her daughter’s name is Akanksha Tai and her son’s name is Yashwardhan Tai.
Yashomati Thakur with son and daughter
Profession
Yashomati Thakur entered politics as a member of the Indian National Congress (INC). In 2004, she contested the Maharashtra Assembly elections for the first time from Teosa (also known as Tivsa) constituency in Amravati district, but lost; Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Sahebrao Thatte won the seat. From 2004 to 2009, she served as the general secretary of the Maharashtra State Youth Congress. At the same time, she also served as a member of the State Women’s Commission. Later, she joined Rahul Gandhi’s Youth Brigade and was responsible for the states of Gujarat, Daman and Diu, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. She has served as Secretary of the Maharashtra State Congress Committee, Secretary of the All-India Congress Committee, and Chairman of the Maharashtra State Congress Committee. She contested and won the Teosa Assembly seat in the 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections, defeating Shiv Sena candidate Sanjay Band by 26,130 votes. She was re-elected as Teosa MP in 2014 and 2019. On December 30, 2019, she was sworn in as Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government led by Uddhav Thackeray; she held this position till June 29, 2022. In 2018, Congress appointed Yasomati as Karnataka party secretary. She was appointed as the President of Vidhansabha Talika by Nana Patole on December 16, 2019, to attend the winter session of Maharashtra Assembly in Vidarbha, Nagpur. As an MLA in the Maharashtra government, she served as the Guardian Minister of Amravati district (2020-2022).
dispute
2012 police assault
Yashomati Thakur and three others, including her driver, were sentenced to three months in prison by an Amravati court for allegedly assaulting a policeman in 2012 in Amravati district. She has since appealed to the High Court against the conviction, seeking a suspended sentence in the form of interim relief. The incident took place on March 24, 2012, in Chulabhatti area, which comes under the jurisdiction of Rajapeth police station in Amravati. Yashomati Thakur, her driver Sagar Suresh Khandekar and party workers Sharad Kashirav Jawanjal and Raju Kisan Ingle allegedly assaulted traffic police officer Ulhas Raurale when he stopped her vehicle from entering the single carriageway. In 2020, the court sentenced Thakur to three months’ rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs 10 lakh in the eight-year-old case. 15,500. She was fined equal amounts by the District Court and the District Court.
Others
Other charges brought against her include charges related to intentional use of a dangerous weapon causing harm, criminal intimidation penalties, unlawful assembly, rioting and more.
assets/property
movable property
- Deposits with banks, financial institutions and non-banking financial companies: Rs. 4,40,995
- NSS, Postal Savings etc.: Rs. 21,671
- Motor vehicles: Rs 13,50,000
real estate
- Agricultural land: Rs. 1,42,85,332
- Non-agricultural land: Rs. 15,10,000
- Commercial Buildings: Rs. 5,95,00,000
- Residential Building: Rs. 93,33,333
Note: Movable and immovable property estimates given are as of 2019. Chattels do not include assets owned by her husband and his dependents. The real estate indicates the assets owned by her Hindu undivided family.
net worth
As of 2019, her net worth is Rs. 11,56,10,771.
Note: It does not include the net worth of her husband and dependents, but includes assets owned by her Hindu Indivisible Family.
Facts/Trivia
- Yashomati Thakur contested against her sister Sanyogita Naik Nimbalkar in the 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections. contested the election as an independent candidate with the support of local organization Prahar. Nimbalkar led Thakur’s campaign in the 2009 assembly elections and contributed to her victory. Addressing the media, Nimbalkar expressed her disappointment with Thakur, saying:
I campaigned for my sister during the 2009 elections and thought she would bring development. But she didn’t do anything, so I decided to take on her. “
- Her other names include Yashomati Bhayyasaheb Thakur and Yashomati Tai Thakur.
- Like many members of Congress, Yasoomati was a loyal follower of Sri Tukdorji Maharaj. Her father, Bhayyasaheb Thakur, was also influenced by Tukdorji Maharaj.
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education