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Rajan Vichare is a political leader from Maharastra and a member of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray). He is the incumbent Member of Parliament from Thane Lok Sabha seat. He was born on August 1, 1961, in Mumbai.
He started his political career in 1985 after aligning himself with Shiv Sena. He became the mayor of Thane Municipal Corporation in 2006 before becoming a member of the Maharastra State Assembly in 2009.
He successfully contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election in 2014, earning his first term in the lower house of the Indian Parliament before retaining his seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to mark his second consecutive term in Lok Sabha.
In 2023, he asked the Bombay High Court to restore his security after accusing Eknath Shinde of targeting the Shiv Sena members of the Uddhav Thackrey group.
