(the Marathi commoner) in Mumbai and also fought for the rights of Thackeray has claimed that the Shiv Sena has helped the Marathi manoos After the six-year voting ban on Bal Thackeray was lifted in 2005, he voted for the first time in the 2006 BMC elections. In any election for six years from Decemtill December 10,Ģ005 on the recommendations of the Election Commission. On JBal Thackeray was banned from voting and contesting During the tenure of the government from 1995 to 1999, Thackeray was nicknamed ' remote control' since he played a major role in government policies and decisions from behind the scenes. The BJP-Shiv Sena combine won the 1995 Maharashtra State Assembly elections and came to power. It later allied itself with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the common issue of Hindu Nationalism which both parties believed in. Politically, the Sena was anti-communist, and wrested control of major trade unions in Mumbai from the Communist Party of India and demanded protection money( extortion) from mainly Gujarati and marwari business leaders. In 1989, the Sena's newspaper Saamna was launched. Maharashtrians competing against immigrants from southern India, The early objective of the Shiv Sena was to ensure job security for He formed the Shiv Sena on 19 June 1966 with the intent of fighting for the rights of the natives of the state of Maharashtra (called Maharashtrians). He used it to campaign against the growing numbers of and influence of non-Marathi people in Mumbai targeting Gujaratis and South Indian labor workers. In 1960, he launched a cartoon weekly Marmik with his brother. His cartoons were also published in the Sunday edition of The Times of India.
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Shiv sainiks called them 'Hindu Hriday Samrat' with love(Emperor of Hindu's heart)īal Thackeray started his career as a cartoonist in the Free Press Journal in Mumbai. Keshav Thackeray was a progressive social activist and writer who wasĪgainst caste biases and played a key role in the Samyukta Maharashtra Chalwal (literally, United Maharashtra Movement) in the 1950s to form the Marathi-speaking state of Maharashtra with Mumbai as its capital. Prabodhan or 'Enlightenment') in a lower-middle class, Marathi family. Thackeray because of his articles in his fortnightly magazine named He was born to Keshav Sitaram Thackeray (also known as Prabodhankar
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In Mumbai's political and professional landscape. In 1966, Thackeray formed the Shiv Sena party to advocate more strongly the place of Maharashtrians Through Marmik, he campaigned against the growing influence of Gujaratis, Marwaris, and migrants from South India in Mumbai. His political philosophy was largely shaped by his father Keshav Sitaram Thackeray, a leading figure in the Samyukta Maharashtra movement (United Maharashtra movement), which advocated the creation of a separate linguistic state of Maharashtra. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bal Thackerayīal Keshav Thackeray ( born 23 January 1926 ), popularly known as Hinduhriday Samraat Balasaheb Thackeray, is an Indian politician, founder and chief of the Shiv Sena, a right-wing Hindu nationalist, and Marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.īorn in Pune, Thackeray began his professional career as a cartoonist with the English language daily the Free Press Journal in Mumbai, but left it in 1960 to form his own political weekly Marmik.