Union Minister Anurag Thakur becomes first serving MP to get promoted as Captain in Territorial Army

Union Minister Anurag Thakur becomes first serving MP to get promoted as Captain in Territorial Army

• Union Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Anurag Thakur has been appointed as Captain in the Territorial Army on March 10, 2021.
• Thakur has been promoted to the rank of Captain at 124 Infantry Battalion Territorial Army (Sikh).
• Earlier, he was commissioned into the Territorial Army as a Lieutenant in July 2016, by then Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Dalbir S Suhag TA.
• Thakur is the first serving Member of Parliament (MP) to become a regular commissioned officer in the Territorial Army.
• Thakur is a four-time BJP MP from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh.