Vidya Thakur

MLA Vidya Thakur

Minister Of State Women and Child Development Government of Maharashtra
Incumbent
Assumed office 31 October2014
Member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for Goregaon
Incumbent
Assumed office 2014
Preceded by	Subhash Desai
Deputy Mayor of Mumbai
In office 2007–2009
Personal details
Born	(1963-06-15) June 15, 1963
Political party	Bhartiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)	Jaiprkash Thakur
Occupation	Politician
Website	http://www.mahabjp.org Maharashtra BJP Official Page

Vidya Thakur (born June 15) is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and a member of 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Goregaon.^[1] She is Minister of State for Women and Child Development, Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, Food and Drugs Administration^[2] in Devendra Fadnavis Ministry. On 10 July 2016 she was relieved of responsibility for food and drug administration in a cabinet reshuffle.

Education and early career

Thakur attended Kudilal Govindram Sekseria Sarvodaya School, finishing in 1977.^[3]

Political career

Vidya Thakur first time won election of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in 1992.

Positions held

Within BJP

Ex.General Secretary BJP Mumbai Mahila Morcha

Legislative

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation 2007
Ex.Public Health Committee Chairperson^[4]
Deputy Mayor, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation on 17 March 2007^[5]^[6]
Member, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly - since 2014

References

Political offices
Preceded by	Minister of State for Women and Child Development, Food and Civil Supplies, Food and Drug Administration; Maharashtra State December 2014–present	Incumbent

Bharatiya Janata Party

Presidents	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) Lal Krishna Advani (1986–91) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Lal Krishna Advani (1993–98) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Lal Krishna Advani (2004–06) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–present)

Current Vice Presidents	Satya Pal Malik Parsottambhai Rupala Prabhat Jha Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Renu Devi Dinesh Sharma Om Prakash Mathur Shyam Jaju Avinash Rai Khanna

Other prominent leaders	Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Yashwant Sinha Subramanian Swamy Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Sushil Kumar Modi Himanta Biswa Sarma

Prime Ministers	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi

Current Chief ministers	Vijay Rupani Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Laxmikant Parsekar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das Sarbananda Sonowal

Spokespersons	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Siddharth Nath Singh Nalin Kohli Shaina NC Sambit Patra Anil Baluni GVL Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal

General Secretaries	P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Muralidhar Rao Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh

Morcha	Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha

Related organisations	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh

Others	Hindutva Integral humanism

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