Yashomati Chandrakant Thakur

Yashomati Thakur is a politician from the Indian National Congress.

Career Thakur was the guardian minister of Amravati District Government of Maharashtra 2020-2022 and was member of the 14th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, where she represented the Teosa Assembly Constituency.

Thakur was appointed AICC secretary for the congress party affairs in the Karnataka state. She was appointed AICC secretary for Amravati, Maharashtra.

Yashomat Thakur won for the third consecutive time from the Teosa assembly; before her, her father represented the same constituency multiple times.

She was sworn in as a cabinet minister in the Uddhav Thackeray led Mahavikas Aghadi Government. She was also the guardian minister of Amravati district.

On 21 November 2025, independent Maharashtra MLA Ravi Rana claimed that Thakur would join the Bharatiya Janata Party within the next six months.

Thakur was appointed Vidhansabha Talika president on 16 December 2019 by Nana Patole for the winter session of Maharashtra Assembly held in Nagpur Vidarbha.

Criminal case

A sessions court in Amravati on October 15 convicted Thakur, who is the state's women and child development minister, and three others including her driver, in the case and sentenced them to three months imprisonment.