Devesh Chandra Thakur Height, Age, Wife, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Devesh Chandra Thakur

• He contested his first election for the Student Union of Savitribai Phule Pune University and was elected vice president of the Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress, where he worked closely with the late former chief minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushilkumar Shinde.

• Later, he joined a shipping company as a director, traveling to nearly 25 countries in the course of his career.

• He started his political career by contesting the 1990 Bihar Legislative Assembly election from the Bathnaha Assembly constituency, Sitamarhi as a candidate from the Indian National Congress but he lost to the veteran leader Suryadeo Ray and stood third place.

• In 2002, he contested the Bihar Legislative Council election from Tirhut Graduate Constituency as an independent candidate and won that election.

• In 2008, Thakur contested and won the Bihar Legislative Council elections from the Tirhut Graduate seat, retaining his position until 2020.

• He is considered an “Ajatshatru” of Tirhut politics due to his unbroken winning streak. Subsequently, he also became a cabinet minister in the Disaster Management Department of the Government of Bihar.

• In 2024 Indian general election, he contested election from Sitamarhi Lok Sabha and won by defeating the RJD candidate Arjun Roy by a margin of 51,356 votes.

• Thakur subsequently announced that “he won’t work for Muslims and Yadavs” because they didn’t vote for him. Misa Bharti criticised this statement of Thakur. BJP MP Giriraj Singh supported the statement of Thakur. Later, Thakur retracted his statement.

• In 2026, Devesh Chandra Thakur went viral on social media after he was seen reassuring pilgrims from Maharashtra who had escaped the devastating floods in Nepal and crossed into Bihar.