First-time city council candidate Burt Thakur convincingly outpolled incumbent Tammy Meinershagen in a Saturday runoff, and is poised to represent the council’s Place 2 after an election cycle marked ...

He's a military veteran, a game show winner and now the first Indian American elected to Frisco's city council. Whether it ...

Burt Thakur, a 42-year-old engineer, a military veteran,ad a game show winner has made political history by becoming the ...

FRISCO, TX – In an emotional victory, Burt Thakur secured the Place 2 seat on the Frisco City Council in a runoff election on June 7, defeating incumbent Tammy Meinershagen. Thakur’s win is a landmark ...

Elad ran against former Frisco ISD trustee Gopal Ponangi.

Burt Thakur defeated the incumbent, Tammy Meinershagen, with about 55% of the vote according to unofficial election night results. Meinershagen faced controversy after local blog The Frisco ...

Last month, we recommended that voters return incumbent Tammy Meinershagen to her Place 2 seat on the Frisco City Council.When the votes were counted, she trailed Burt Thakur by 387 votes. The two ...

For so long, says Thakur, Hindu Americans had to wait their turn to enter the political space as anything other than a Democrat. But now, with openly Hindu Republican figures like Vivek Ramaswamy ...

Thakur: I am running for Congress from CA-25 because I feel we must start dreaming big and fix our most pressing issues: To fix the Salton Sea: we build a pipeline coupled with a desalination ...