Anurag Thakur holds the office of Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Youth Affairs and Sports in the Government of India. Thakur has secured four consecutive terms as a Member of Parliament.
Terming the six-month tenure of the AAP government in the state a failure, Union Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs and Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur shrugged off allegations of horse-trading by the BJP.
Anurag Thakur, who became first serving BJP MP to become captain in Territorial Army as a regular commissioned officer.
NEW DELHI: Union minister of state for finance and corporate affairs Anurag Thakur on Wednesday became the first serving BJP MP and party minister to become Captain in the Territorial Army as a regular commissioned officer.
The BJP MP from Himachal Pradesh’s Hamirpur was commissioned into the Territorial Army as a Lieutenant by the then Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Dalbir S Suhag TA in July 2016 as a Lieutenant.
“Today I am honoured to share, I have been promoted to the rank of Captain” Thakur, who was recently tasked by his party to look after high-decibel DDC local bod polls in Jammu and Kashmir, told TOI.