Yashomati Chandrakant Thakur
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Yashomati Chandrakant Thakur | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Women and Child Development Government of Maharashtra | |
| In office 30 December 2019 – 29 June 2022 | |
| Governor | Bhagat Singh Koshyari |
| Chief Minister | Uddhav Thackeray |
| Deputy CM | Ajit Pawar |
| Preceded by | Pankaja Munde |
| Succeeded by | Aditi Tatkare |
| Guardian minister of Amravati District Government of Maharashtra | |
| In office 9 January 2020 – 29 June 2022 | |
| Constituency | Teosa |
| Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly | |
| In office (2009-2014), (2014-2019), (2019 – 2024) | |
| Preceded by | Sahebrao Tatte |
| Succeeded by | Rajesh Shriramji Wankhade |
| Constituency | Teosa |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 May 1974 |
| Party | Indian National Congress |
| Website | yashomatithakur |
Yashomati Thakur is a politician from the Indian National Congress.
Thakur was the guardian minister of Amravati District Government of Maharashtra 2020-2022 and was member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, where she represented the Teosa Assembly Constituency.
Thakur was appointed AICC secretary for the congress party affairs in the Karnataka state. She was appointed AICC secretary for Amravati, Maharashtra.[1]
Yashomat Thakur won for the third consecutive time from the Teosa assembly; before her, her father represented the same constituency multiple times.
She was sworn in as a cabinet minister in the Uddhav Thackeray led Mahavikas Aghadi Government. She was also the guardian minister of Amravati district.
On 21 November 2025, independent Maharashtra MLA Ravi Rana claimed that Thakur would join the Bharatiya Janata Party within the next six months.[2]
Thakur was appointed Vidhansabha Talika president on 16 December 2019 by Nana Patole for the winter session of Maharashtra Assembly held in Nagpur Vidarbha.