Kapil Krishna Thakur

Kapil Krishna Thakur

Member of the India Parliament for Bangaon
Incumbent
Assumed office 2014
Preceded by	Gobinda Chandra Naskar
Succeeded by	Mamata Thakur
Personal details
Born	(1940-06-13)13 June 1940
Died	13 October 2014(2014-10-13) (aged 74) 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

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

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from West Bengal

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Bye-elections 2015	Mamata Thakur Pre-bye poll: Kapil Krishna Thakur - deceased

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