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| Born | 15 August 1922 |
| Died | 28 December 2003 (aged 81) |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Profession | Lawyer, politician |
Kushabhau Thakre (15 August 1922 – 28 December 2003) was an Indian politician belonging to theBharatiya Janata Party and aMember of Parliament.
Kushabhau Thakre was born atDhar,Madhya Pradesh in aChandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu family[1][2][3] to parents Dr. Sundarrao Shripatirao Thakre (father) and Smt. Shantabai Sundarrao Thakre (mother). He was educated at Dhar andGwalior.
In 1942 he was inducted as aPracharak by theRashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh then moved to the Ratlam Division (Ratlam,Ujjain,Mandsaur,Jhabua,Chittaur,Kota,Bundi,Jhalawad,Banswada (Raj.),Dahod (Gujarat)). He moved up in theJana Sangh, the political wing of the RSS at the time.
In 1956 he became Secretary (Organisation)Madhya Pradesh of theBharatiya Jana Sangh. He was appointed All India Secretary ofBharatiya Jana Sangh,Orissa and also additional in charge ofGujarat in 1967.
In 1974 he was made All India Secretary (Organisation). During the 1975–1977 Emergency, he was jailed for 19 months alongside other opposition political leaders. He was elected toLok Sabha in 1979 in a by-election fromKhandwa, Madhya Pradesh. He lost General Election from Khandwa in 1980. But he mostly stayed away from electoral politics.
When theBharatiya Janata Party was formed in 1980, he was appointed a Secretary and in charge of Gujarat, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh. He remained on this post until 1984. Throughout the years, he held offices as a national General Secretary, Vice-President or "in-charge" of a particular state.
On 14 April 1998 Thakre was elected as president of theBharatiya Janata Party. In August 2000, he stepped down from this post.[4]
A true visionary and an efficient team builder Thakre has major contribution in building the organisation inChhattisgarh.[5]
He died 28 December 2003 at the age of 81 atAll India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi after prolonged illness as he was suffering from kidney cancer.[6]
Some of the places named after him areKushabhau Thakre University of Journalism and Mass Communication inRaipur,[7] Kushabhau Thakre Nursing College,Kushabhau Thakre Inter State Bus Terminal inBhopal, Kushabhau Thakre Community Hall inAhmedabad,Kushabhau Thakre hall(Minto Hall, Bhopal) Kushabhau Thakre District hospital inShahdol and Kushabhau Thakre Road inIndore.
(pg 147)Members of the Maharashtrian high castes were particularly numerous, whether Brahmins or – like Thakre[Kushabhau, pg 133] – CKPs.(pg 148) In Indore, the Maharashtrian upper castes were particularly over-represented within the RSS and the Jana Sangh. In the municipal councils, from 1950–65, the Maharashtrian Brahmins and CKP accounted for two-thirds or three-fourths of the Hindu Nationalist representation.
In fact, in the late 1990s and in 2000 the party apparatus was still controlled by upper-caste leaders — either from the faction led by former Chief Minister Sunderlal Patwa (a Jain) and BJP National President Kushabhau Thakre (a Kayasth[prabhu]),or by its opponents , led by Lami Narayan Pandey and former chief minister Kailash Joshi, both Brahmins
Le cas du Madhya Pradesh En Inde centrale, une des premières zones de force du nationalisme hindou, cette charge fut progressivement confiée à Kushabhau Thakre. Natif de Dhar et de caste kayasth[prabhu] (rough translation of last part: the charge was gradually entrusted to Kushabhau Thakre. Native of Dhar and of caste CKP
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