The recent Maharashtra politics took serpentine turns when the power shifted in the hands of Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress in one swift shot leaving BJP bewildered. When it comes to Maharashtra politics, one name stands out, and that is Thackeray. The latest hotshot- Uddhav Thackeray, the new crown prince of Shiv Sena and current chief minister of Maharashtra, has an interesting political history.
The youngest son of Balasaheb Thackeray’s three children- Jaidev Thackeray, Bindumadhav Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray. Uddhav Thackeray (59), a peaceful individual essentially, whenever the party needed his advice or sought help, he would give the duty to his cousin Raj. Later in 1996, he came to live with his dad at his residence- ‘Matoshree’ after his oldest sibling’s- Bindumadhav, death. Bindumadhav died in a street mishap.
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Uddhav Thackeray began his political profession in 2002 as a campaign in charge of Shiv Sena in Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) races where the group performed well. In 2003, he was delegated as a working leader of Shiv Sena. Uddhav took over as boss editorial manager of group paper Saamana (a day by day Marathi-language paper distributed by Shiv Sena) in 2006 and surrendered in 2019 preceding turning out to be a boss minister of Maharashtra. Shiv Sena was split in 2006 when his cousin- Raj Thackeray left Shiv Sena. Raj later went on to frame their own party- Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.
After the death of his father Bal Thackeray in 2012, he sat in the driver’s seat of the party and got chosen as Shiv Sena president in 2013. Under his authority, in 2014, Shiv Sena joined NDA government in Maharashtra. Despite the fact that he never took any designated post in his political profession however on 28 November 2019 he made a vow as nineteenth Chief Minister of Maharashtra in the wake of being chosen as the pioneer of recently shaped post-survey alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi.
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Thackeray’s enthusiasm for party politics stemmed in 1999 when the Sena-BJP lost to the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) consolidated. In the following five years, he rose as Balasaheb’s confidante and was delegated official leader of the group in 2003. Thackeray always had extremely clear thoughts. He was enthused about reconstructing the Sena as a group that had faith in comprehensive advancement instead of being known as a group of stone-pelters. In 2003, Thackeray propelled a battle called ‘Mee Mumbaikar’, planned for remembering individuals who contributed to the betterment of Maharashtra, especially for the improvement of Mumbai and its surrounding districts. He additionally began visiting the state trying to improve his adequacy among the Shiv Sena pioneers and framework.
That turned into a point of conflict among him and Raj, who anticipated that Uddhav Thackeray should avoid his (Raj’s) domain’, comprising of Thane, Pune and Nashik. Around a similar time, Thackeray started directing terms to previous boss Narayan Rane, attesting his substantial expertise in the Sena group. Both Rane and Raj quit the Sena in 2005. Thackeray had expected full control of the group in late 2007 after Balasaheb quit venturing out of Matoshree because of his ill health. Uddhav has liberated the Sena of the posse of scoundrels was Balasaheb’s greatest commendation to his child.
With total command over the group and the BMC, Thackeray began actualizing his vision for the city. He made the BMC develop burrows rather than pipelines to give a constant supply of drinking water and set up three siphoning stations to keep the city from flooding in the storms. It’s an alternate issue that the stations demonstrate valuable just if the precipitation is moderate, and Thackeray and the BMC become the subject of analysis whenever the city gets overwhelmed. Thackeray’s restriction to a synthetic treatment facility and atomic power venture in Konkan, have painted him as an enemy of an industry-government official.
Personal life-
He is married to Rashmi Thackeray and is a father of two sons- Aditya and Tejas. Uddhav Thackeray has always had a keen interest in photography. His photography art collection- aerial shots of various forts of Maharashtra, had been exhibited at the Jehangir Art Gallery in 2004.
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