Kshitij Thakur

Kshitij Thakur's father, Hitendra Thakur was the M.L.A. of the region for four consecutive terms, the first as a candidate of the Indian National Congress and the next three as an independent candidate.Thakur began his political career in 2009. The Vasai constituency was split into two-- Vasai and Nallasopara. He contested from the Nallasopara constituency from the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi, led by his father Hitendra Thakur. At the age of 26, he was elected with a margin of more than 40,000 votes. His opponents, Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navanirman Sena, received second and third highest votes respectively. The feat made him one of the youngest members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.

In the 2009 Maharashtra state assembly elections, Hitendra Thakur stepped down voluntarily to make way for his son to enter Indian politics. After delimitation, the Vasai constituency was divided into Vasai and Nala Sopara. Kshitij Hitendra Thakur is one of the youngest members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. In his first election Kshitij Thakur won with a margin of more than 40,000 votes. He got 89,284 votes, while his opposition Shiv Sena candidate Shirish Chavan got 48,502 votes. MNS aspirant Vivek Keluskar got 20,749 votes.[3]In 2014, he defeated the BJP's Rajan Balkrishna Naik, who got only 59,067 votes as against Thakur’s 1,13,566 votes. Thakur had won the 2014 elections by a margin of 54,499 votes.