Lavingji Thakor

Thakor is from Radhanpur, Patan district, Gujarat. He is the son of Muljiji Solanki. He studied at the Primary School, Parsud, Santalpur taluk, Patan district, till Class 4 and later discontinued his studies. His profession before entering political life was farming.^[1]

Thakor won from Radhanpur Assembly constituency representing the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election.^[3] He polled 104,512 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Raghubhai Desai of the Indian National Congress, by 22,467 votes.^{[citation needed]} He became an MLA for the first time winning the Radhanpur seat in the 1995 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election as an independent candidate.^[4] He lost the 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election to Alpesh Khadaji Thakor of the Indian National Congress by 14,857 votes.^[5]