Thackeray family pays tribute to Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday, November 17, paid tribute to party supremo Balasaheb Thackeray on his seventh death anniversary, at Shivaji Park in Mumbai. Balasaheb Thackeray breathed his last on November 17 in 2010, after suffering a cardiac arrest.

Uddhav Thackeray's wife Rashmi along with Aaditya Thackeray and Tejas Thackeray also paid their tribute to the founder of Shiv Sena. Earlier in the day, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut also paid homage to Balasaheb Thackeray. Similarly, NCP Supremo Sharad Pawar too extolled the Sena founder for his great sense of regional pride in the being 'Marathi Manoos'.  

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About Balasaheb Thackeray

Famously known as the 'Hindu Hridaysamrat', Bal Thackeray had started as a cartoonist with a Free Press Journal (FPJ). After leaving FPJ, Thackeray went on to establish his political weekly - 'Marmik' commenting on the growing influence of non-Marathis in 1960s Bombay. To advocate pro-Marathi interests and to forward the pro-Hindutva cause, Thackeray founded the Shiv Sena.

After the establishment of the Shiv Sena, Thackeray's political sway in Maharashtra - especially in Mumbai grew leaps and bounds. Post -1992, Thackeray - also the founder of Saamana, vociferously fought for the Ram Mandir movement, allying with the BJP as part of the NDA. In 1999, Thackeray was banned from voting and contesting in any election for six years by the EC. Thackeray never held any official position but was known as the kingmaker in the Maharashtra government. On November 17, 2012, Thackeray passed away at his residence Matoshree and was accorded a state funeral.

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