Elad ran against former Frisco ISD trustee Gopal Ponangi.

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 ...

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

Thakur is also the first Indian American to get elected to public office in Frisco, a community that makes up 15% of the city's population.

Thakur, Elad win races in Frisco runoff election, unofficial results show Burt Thakur defeated incumbent Tammy Meinershagen, and is poised to become the city’s first councilmember of Indian descent.

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 ...

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 ...

Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney and City Council candidate Burt Thakur with rendering of Frisco Center for the Arts (City of Frisco, FriscoTX.gov, Burt4Texas) May 9, 2025, 5:09 PM. By .

FRISCO, Texas — A controversial AI-generated cartoon is drawing backlash in Frisco after appearing on a campaign poster outside Fire Station 8, a polling site during Saturday's city-wide election.