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Bahujan Vikas Aghadi
AbbreviationBVA
President
Minority Rights[1]
ECI StatusState party
Alliance
Seats in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
3 / 288
Election symbol
Website
Bahujan Vikas Aghadi

Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi (English: Bahujan Development Front) is a regional political party in the Vasai-Virar region of Maharashtra.[3] It was originally known as Vasai Vikas Aaghadi. The party is led and founded by Hitendra Thakur who was a one-time member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on an Indian National Congress ticket and two time independent MLA before founding the party.

Nalasopara, Rajeev Patil, the first mayor of Vasai-Virar City Municipal Corporation
are some of the well known local leaders associated with the party.

Career

In 2009, in the

Palghar
seat and Baliram Jadhav became the first member of parliament from the party.

Aaghadi lost the

Chintaman Vanga
.

Boisar where Vilas Tare and Nalasopara where Kshitij Thakur
won the elections.

In the

Vasai where Hitendra Thakur won.[5]

Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation

In 2015, The BVA swept the

Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation polls by winning 106 seats. Vasai elected its first woman Mayor, Pravina Thakur for Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi. Pravina Thakur is married to Hitendra Thakur, MLA from Vasai
.

Many of the winners faced no opposition candidate. The BVA is one of the strongest parties in Vasai-Virar region.[6][7][8]

2019 Assembly election

In the 2019 Assembly Elections, Bahujan Vikas Aghadi won all three of the seats it contested. The newly elected MLA's are Rajesh Raghunath Patil, Kshitij Thakur, and Hitendra Thakur.

Constituency Number Constituency Name Winner
131
Boisar
 Rajesh Raghunath Patil
132
Nalasopara
 Kshitij Thakur
133
Vasai
 Hitendra Thakur

References

  1. ^ "Bahujan Vikas Aghadi demands use of Urdu in public places". The Times of India.
  2. New Indian Express
    . 27 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (BVA)". www.bahujanvikasaghadi.com. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  4. ^ Marpakwar, Prafulla (22 May 2009). "CM okays plan for civic body in Virar belt". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2009.
  5. ^ Nair, Smitha (20 March 2013). "Maharashtra: Five MLAs suspended for beating up policeman". News18. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  6. ^ Nair, Sandhya (6 December 2013). "Bahujan Vikas Aghadi leader, son held for murder of kin - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  7. ^ Nair, Sandhya (29 October 2016). "Neta booked for molesting two women, uploading pics - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  8. ^ Nair, Sandhya (14 October 2016). "Youth leader of BVA held for molesting woman in Naigaon - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 December 2023.

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