Vichare Rajan Baburao

Vichare has been in association with Shiv Sena since his childhood. Coming from a middle-class family and having worked in various blue-collar jobs, in 1985, he became a full-time worker of Sena. He is an admirer of politician Anand Dighe. Though he was chosen to contest 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Thane.

• Vichre successfully contested elections for 17th Lok Sabha and again became MP. He defeated Anand Prakash Paranjpe of NCP with the margin of 412,145 votes.

• He was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha by defeating Sanjeev Ganesh Naik of NCP from Thane constituency.

• Rajan Vichare was a member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly

• Co-Chairman, Vigilance and Monitoring Cell (Ministry of Rural Development), Thane District, Maharashtra

• Member, Telephone Advisory Committee, Mumbai East-II

• Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

• Member, Standing Committee on Industry

• Member, Committee on Petitions

He was a Corporator for four times from 1992-1997, 1997-2002, 2002-2007 and 2007-2012. He was the Mayor of Thane City from 21/02/2005 - 10/03/2007. While serving as the Mayor of the Thane Municipal Corporation, he took initiative in formulating the SATIS Project which focused on the improvement of the traffic situation in Thane stations. He paved way for getting the main roads of the city concreted, facilitated water supply scheme of over 110,0,00,000 litres, conservation and beautification of lakes in the city, health care centers, establishment of well maintained gardens, subways, foot over bridge, underground drainage system and executed a well planned solid waste disposal scheme. He constructed a Sports Arena, helped with the rehabilitation of the slums and drafted the Thane vision document for until for the year 2031. * He has been an active member of all party activities since he took the reins of the Thane Branch. He has contributed largely to Thane Municipal Corporation winning the Power Conservation and ‘Clean Thane, Beautiful Thane’ award, the CRISIL Award, Special Award for execution of the Solid Waste Disposal Scheme, initiated the solar energy project and set a trend of excellent execution of Corporation activities. * He erected a special monument for the martyrs of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack at the Siddheshwar Garden. He organized the Thane Varsha Marathon, constructed the Fire Brigade Center at Nitin Company, and organized Amarnath Yatra, study centre for students at the Siddheswar Garden, gymnasium, Dheya Mandir in the Charai area and health centre. He successfully organized the Thane festival and constructed the Thane Art Gallery and Dr. Kashinath Ghanekar auditorium at Maanpada. He was elected as an MLA of Maharashtra in October 2009. His tenure as an MLA saw the completion of the Gaodevi marketplace, was the President of Akhil Bharitya Marathi Natya Parishad, implemented the cluster development scheme in Thane. * Got the construction of three fly-overs sanctioned from the MMRDA to solve the traffic jam issue in Thane, facilitated BEST bus services for travelers in Thane, tried to improve basic amenities at the Police Quarters, CCTV cameras were installed at stations using the MLA fund allotted to Mr Rajan for safety of people. * Facilitated approval of construction of hostels and colleges for the Mumbai University branch and swiftly increased the pace of work. * Received The National Energy Award by The Minister of Environment from the Honorable President Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam