Anurag Singh Thakur Personal Life<\/strong><\/h2><\/p>Name<\/strong><\/td>Anurag Thakur<\/td><\/tr> First Name<\/strong><\/td>Arthur<\/td><\/tr> Last Name<\/strong><\/td>Gunn<\/td><\/tr> Occupation<\/strong><\/td>Politician<\/td><\/tr> Birthday<\/strong><\/td>October 24<\/td><\/tr> Birth Year<\/strong><\/td>1974<\/td><\/tr> Place of Birth<\/strong><\/td>Hamirpur<\/td><\/tr> Birth Country<\/strong><\/td>India<\/td><\/tr> Birth Sign<\/strong><\/td>Scorpio<\/td><\/tr> Parents<\/strong><\/td>Prem Kumar Dhumal, Sheela Devi<\/td><\/tr> Siblings<\/strong><\/td>Not Available<\/td><\/tr> Spouse<\/strong><\/td>Sheffali Thakur<\/td><\/tr> Children(s)<\/strong><\/td>Udayveer Thakur, Jaiaditya Thakur<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure><\/p>
Anurag Singh Thakur<\/strong> Early life and education<\/strong><\/h2>On October 24, 1974, Thakur was born in Hamirpur. He is Prem Kumar Dhumal and Sheela Devi’s eldest son. At Jalandhar, Punjab’s Doaba College, he pursued his B.A.<\/p>
Anurag Singh Thakur<\/strong> Cricket career<\/strong><\/h2>As president of the HPCA, Anurag Thakur participated in a Ranji Trophy match against Jammu & Kashmir in November 2000. In the 2000\u201301 season, he led the Himachal Pradesh squad as captain in their victory over Jammu & Kashmir and participated in one first-class cricket match. Jammu & Kashmir triumphed by four wickets.<\/p>
In order to meet the BCCI requirement\u2014which states that state administrators must have at least one first-class match experience\u2014he chose himself for the match. This allowed him to advance to the state level as a selector. Following the game, he announced his appointment as the HPCA Ranji trophy cricket team’s chairman of selectors.<\/p>
He was embroiled in a legal battle concerning the rights to the International Cricket Stadium in Dharamshala between the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association and the Himachal Pradesh State Government.<\/p>
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Thakur continued to rise up the ranks in cricketing administration bodies to the position of Secretary for BCCI.<\/li>\n\n On 22 May 2016, Thakur became the president of BCCI, and in January 2017, he was removed from the post by the Supreme Court from the post of BCCI president for not complying with its orders and making false statements under oath before the Supreme Court. <\/li>\n\n The Supreme Court gave its ruling on the Lodha Committee\u2019s third status report, submitted on 14 November 2016, asking for the disqualification of office-bearers of the BCCI and all state associations, who became ineligible as per the Apex Court\u2019s 18 July 2016 order.<\/li><\/ul>Cricket Administrator<\/strong><\/h2>He served as the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) until Anurag Thakur was removed from office on February 1, 2017, by the Supreme Court of India. He rose to prominence early in his administrative career as the cricketer who may have been the first to play in a first-class match after becoming the President of the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) in July 2000, when his father was Himachal Pradesh’s Chief Minister. His only and only first-class cricket match was this debut. Due to his first-class cricket experience, he was able to meet the requirement that only first-class players be national selectors and was accepted into the BCCI national junior selection committee.<\/p>
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Territorial Army<\/strong><\/h2>Anurag Thakur joined the territorial army in July 2016 and became the first sitting member of the BJP to be commissioned as a regular officer in the force.<\/p>
Personal life<\/strong><\/h2>On November 27, 2002, Thakur wed Shefali Thakur, the daughter of Gulab Singh Thakur, a former minister in the Himachal Pradesh government’s Public Works Department.<\/p>
Political Career<\/strong><\/h2>In 2008, Anurag set out on his first political trip. We are all aware that Anurag has inherited the political world. He possesses several of these attributes as a result, which are appropriate for a politician.<\/p>
In 2008, Anurag ran for the BJP seat in Hamirpur. In this 14th Lok Sabha election, Anurag not only ran for office but also won.<\/p>
Following that, in the 2009 and 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Anurag Thakur won the Hamirpur seat once more. Following this, he was proclaimed the winner of the 16th Lok Sabha elections and the President of the All India Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha.<\/p>
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Anurag demonstrated his leadership abilities to all by making the National Integration Tour a success, which took place from Kolkata to Srinagar.<\/p>
He also accomplished the visit’s goal of raising the tricolor at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk.<\/p>
Political Timeline<\/strong><\/h2>In 2008, He was Elected to 14th Lok Sabha in a bye-election. He defeated O.P.Rattan of Congress Party by 174,666 votes.<\/li>\n\n In 2009, He was Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (2nd term). He defeated Narinder Thakur of the Congress Party by 72,732 votes. He was a Member of the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism, and Culture. Member of Consultative Committee, Ministry of Power<\/li>\n\n In 2014, He was Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (3rd term) He defeated Rajinder Singh Rana of the Congress Party by 98,403 votes.<\/li>\n\n He was a Member of the General Purposes Committee on 13 May 2015. Member of Joint Committee on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation, and Resettlement (Second Amendment) Bill, 2015.<\/li>\n\n In 2019, He was Re-elected to the 17th Lok Sabha for a fourth term from Haripur Lok Sabha constituency where he defeated Ram Lal Thakur of INC by a margin of over 300000 votes. He was appointed to the MoS Ministry of Finance and Corporate Affairs.<\/li>\n\n Thakur was appointed the president of the All India Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha. He was honored with the Sansad Ratna Award in 2019 for outstanding performance in the 16th Lok Sabha.<\/li>\n\n Thakur is one of the youngest Parliamentarians in India today and received the Best Young Parliamentarian Award in 2011In December 2019, he was accused of being one of the political leaders who incited communal riots in Delhi using hate speech \u201ctraitor of the country\u201d to which his audience \u201cshoot the bastards\u201d replied, which were repeated by him in January 2020 at a BJP rally.<\/li>\n\n On being questioned about the statements by the media on March 1, 2020, he responded by saying, \u201cYou are lying, \u2026 the matter is sub-judice.\u201d and \u201cI think sometimes there is lack of information in the media too regarding the way some things are projected.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/p>