Kushabhau Thakre, 82, a Hindu nationalist leader and former president of India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party, died Sunday in a New Delhi hospital of cancer.
Thakre was born and reared in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. He began his political career as a preacher in Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, or the National Volunteer Corps, the parent organization of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's BJP party.
