Nutan Thakur, a former
journalist
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Roles
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, is a social and political activist from
Lucknow
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,
Uttar Pradesh
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, associated with a registered political party
Azad Adhikar Sena, being led by her husband ex IPS officer
Amitabh Thakur. She is also an advocate primary working in Lucknow bench of Allahabad High court.
Career
Originally from Bihar, Nutan begin her social career as Secretary of Institute for Research and Documentation in social sciences, IRDS, a post she held from 1996 to early 2010. IRDS was a society registered under
Societies Registration Act, 1860, primarily working in research and documentation in various fields of social sciences including
human rights
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,
legal rights
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* Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are ''universal'', ''fundamental rights ...
,
political rights
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,
education
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,
women rights, health rights and so on. She, along with her husband Amitabh Thakur also initiated
National RTI Forum, which was involved with various facets related with
Right to information act
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(RTI), including protests, judicial interventions, advocacy etc.
Nutan entered the field of public interest litigation around 2011 and filed around a hundred briefs on different topics, particularly in Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court, many of which resulted in important interventions being taken by the High court for the betterment of society and for checking the Mal administration and improperties of the government. She entered political arena by joining as a member of
Aam Aadmi Party
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, (AAP) and was among one of her earliest members, but she resigned after serious allegations being labelled against the party. She joined AAP again in 2017 but resigned in 2022, citing her displeasure on the functioning of Uttar Pradesh unit of AAP. Later she joined Adhikar Sena and is presently
General Secretary
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of this party. She also pursued the cause of awarding Padma awards to
Manjunath Shanmugam and
Satyendra Dubey, two bright, young and dedicated young persons who had fought against corruption and were murdered in the way.
Personal life
Nutan Thakur is married to
Amitabh Thakur, an ex IPS officer and President, Azad Adhikar Sena. Her brother in law is Avinash Kumar, an
IAS officer in Jharkhand. Nutan has two children - a daughter named Tanaya and a son named Aditya, both law graduates. While Tanaya graduated from
National Law University
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Patna
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, Aditya graduated from National Law University Lucknow. Tanaya is married to Vineet Kumar, an
Indian Foreign Service
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officer.
See also
*
Amitabh Thakur, ex IPS officer and President, Azad Adhikar Sena
References
External links
* adhikarsena.in
* adhikarpatrika.in
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1973 births
Living people
Journalists from Uttar Pradesh
Activists from Uttar Pradesh