Kapil Krishna Thakur

Kapil Krishna Thakur
Member of the India Parliament
for Bangaon
Assumed office
2014
Preceded by Gobinda Chandra Naskar
Succeeded by Mamata Thakur
Personal details
Born 13 June 1940
Died 13 October 2014
Kolkata
Political party Trinamool Congress
Residence Thakur Nagar, Gaighata, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal

Kapil Krishna Thakur was an Indian politician and a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency), West Bengal.

He won the Indian general election, 2014 being an All India Trinamool Congress candidate.[1] He is a graduate of the University of Calcutta.[2]

He was the eldest son of Matua Barama Binapani Devi and the sanghadhipati of Matua Mahasangha. The estimated seven-million-strong Matua sect comprises West Bengal's second largest scheduled caste population. The Namasudra refugees had migrated from former East Pakistan. Majulkrishna Thakur is his younger brother.[3]

He died at Kolkata on 13 October 2014, after being ill for sometime.[3]

References

  1. "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  2. MyNeta link
  3. 1 2 "Matua MP from Bongaon passes away in Kolkata hospital". The Times of India, 14 October 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2014.



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