Jai Ram Thakur

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Jai Ram Thakur ( Hindi जयराम ठाकुर , born January 6, 1965 in the village of Tandi, Mandi District , Himachal Pradesh , India ) is an Indian politician. He has been Chief Minister of the State of Himachal Pradesh since December 27, 2017 .

biography

Thakur was born as one of six children into a poor rural Rajput family in rural Himachal Pradesh. He received his basic education on site. After graduating from school in 1980, he worked for two years on his parents' farm before going to college. After college, he later earned an MA from Panjab University in Chandigarh . During his college years he joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP, "All-Indian Student Council"), the student organization of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). After graduating from college, he decided to become a permanent member of the ABVP and worked for the ABVP in Jammu and Kashmir for three years . In the 1990s he became a member of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth organization of the BJP. During this time - the early 1990s - he was active in the Ram Madir movement . In the election to the parliament of Himachal Pradesh in 1993, he ran unsuccessfully for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the constituency of Seraj . In the following election in 1998 he won the constituency 60-Chachiot , which he was able to maintain in the following elections in 2003 and 2007. After the constituency boundaries were redefined after 2008, Thakur was successful in the 2012 election in the 29-Seraj constituency , which he was able to repeat in the following election in 2017. In 2013, he also ran for a by-election in the Lok Sabha constituency 2-MANDI , but was defeated by his opponent Prathibha Singh ( Congress Party ), the wife of the then Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, Virbhadra Singh . In the government of the Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal , Thakur was Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj from 2008 to 2012 . From 2007 to 2009 he was chairman of the local party organization of the BJP in Himachal Pradesh.

After the BJP had clearly won the election to the parliament of Himachal Pradesh on November 9, 2017 with 48.8 percent of the vote and 44 of 68 constituencies, Thakur was elected leader of the BJP parliamentary group. With his election he prevailed against the Union Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda, who was also a candidate . The previous local BJP top candidate and ex-chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal had not been able to win his constituency 37-Sujanpur and was therefore no longer a candidate for the post of chief minister. On December 27, 2017, Thakur was sworn in as the new Chief Minister.

Jai Ram Thakur has two daughters with his wife Sadhana. His wife, whose roots are in Karnataka in southern India , but who grew up in Jaipur , is a doctor.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gaurav Bisht: Jai Ram Thakur: The rise and rise of Himachal Pradesh's new CM-elect in BJP. Hindustan Times, December 25, 2017, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Who is Jairam Thakur? The Indian Express, December 24, 2017, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  3. ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed February 17, 2018 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  4. ↑ a b c D. P. Satish: Meet Jai Ram Thakur, the Next Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. News18com, December 27, 2017, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Himachal Pradesh election 2017: Full list of winners. The Indian Express, December 19, 2017, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Vikas Pathak, Kanwar Yogendra: CM-designate Dhumal loses in Sujanpur, Himachal Pradesh. The Hindu, December 19, 2018, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Jairam Thakur Becomes new chief minister of Himachal. Here's all you should know. The Economic Times, December 27, 2017, accessed February 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Thakur, Jai Ram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES जयराम ठाकुर
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Tandi, Mandi District, Himachal Pradesh, India