Uddhav Thackeray
Chief Minister, Member of Legislative Council, Shiv Sena(Maharashtra Navnirman Sena), Maharashtra.
Uddhav Bal Thackeray is the Chief Minister of Maharashtra and is the President of Shiv Sena. He was born on 27-07-1960 to Balasaheb Thackeray & Meena Thackeray in Maharashtra. He did his schooling in Balmohan Vidyamandir and graduated from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art in 1982.
Thackeray has taken a keen interest in photography and has exhibited his collection of aerial shots of various forts of Maharashtra at the Jehangir Art Gallery in 2004. He has also published photo-books Maharashtra Desh (2010) and Pahava Vitthal (2011), capturing various aspects of Maharashtra and the workers during Pandharpur Wari respectively in the two books.
He is the Chief of the Shiv Sena party and the son of Bal Thackery, the Founder of Shiv Sena. He has been involved in the election campaign since 2002. He also looked after the Hindu Marathi News daily.
He has been overtly critical of Modi’s tenure as Prime Minister. The Shiv Sena over the years has criticized several political moves made by BJP. They have been vociferous in their displeasure of BJP’s alliance with PDP in Jammu and Kashmir.
In 2002, Thackeray started his political career as a campaign in Incharge of Shiv Sena in the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections where the party performed well. In 2003, he was appointed as Working President of Shiv Sena.
Uddhav took over as Chief Editor of Party Mouthpiece Saamana (a daily Marathi-language newspaper published by Shiv Sena, Editor-in-chief, Saamana) in 2006 and resigned. His wife Rashmi taking care of the Editor of Saamana and Marmik.
A split in Shiv Sena happened when his cousin Raj Thackeray left the party in 2006 to form his own party named Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.
After the death of his father Balasaheb Thackeray in 2012, he led the party and got elected as Shiv Sena President in 2013, and under his leadership, Shiv Sena joined the NDA government in Maharashtra in 2014.
Though Thackeray never took any constitutional post in his political career initially, however after a brief political crisis, on 28 November 2019 he took the oath as 19th Chief Minister of Maharashtra after being elected as the President of the newly formed post-poll coalition Maha Vikas Aghadi(MVA).
In 2019, Thackeray was the Minister of General Administration, Law and Judiciary, Information and Public Relations, IT in Maharashtra. In 2020, Thackeray is elected by MLA’s as a Member of the Legislative Council in Maharashtra.
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Recent Activities
Born in Maharashtra
Completed Graduation
Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art
Founder of Shiv Sena
His Father Balasaheb Thackeray
Joined in the Shiv sena
Incharge of Shiv Sena
in the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections where the party performed well.
Working President of Shiv Sena
Editor-in-chief, Saamana
Chief Editor of Party Mouthpiece Saamana (a daily Marathi-language newspaper published by Shiv Sena)
President of Shiv Sena
President of Maha Vikas Aghad
newly formed post-poll coalition Maha Vikas Aghadi(MVA).
Chief Minister
of Maharashtra
Minister
of General Administration, Law and Judiciary, Information and Public Relations, IT in Maharashtra.
Member of Legislative Council
in Maharashtra.
MoU for rail projects under MUTP-3 will accelerate the following works;
— Office of Uddhav Thackeray (@OfficeofUT) July 9, 2020
28km new Railway lines between Panvel and Karjat.
3.5km elevated Railway track between Airoli and Kalva.
63km quadrupling of the railway lines between Virar-Dahanu (third and fourth railway lines). https://t.co/1kp6p43Jrj
मुख्यमंत्री उद्धव बाळासाहेब ठाकरे यांनी सहकुटुंब आज पहाटे आषाढी एकादशीच्या निमित्ताने श्री विठ्ठल आणि रुक्मिणी यांची शासकीय महापूजा केली. pic.twitter.com/vnTumB712W
— Office of Uddhav Thackeray (@OfficeofUT) July 1, 2020
The @ShivSena has taken the initiative to deploy 85 ambulances in the service of the patients. Shivsena Party President, CM Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray, today, launched 24 ambulances in the first phase. pic.twitter.com/qozaATHi7G
— Office of Uddhav Thackeray (@OfficeofUT) June 14, 2020
वरळी शाखा क्र. १९६ आणि माहीम शाखा क्र. १९१ शाखेचे क्लिनिकमध्ये रूपांतर करण्यात आले आहे.
— Office of Uddhav Thackeray (@OfficeofUT) June 5, 2020
.@ShivSena Worli Shakha no: 196 & Mahim Shakha No: 191 has been turned into dispensaries. Open for people to come and get themselves checked. https://t.co/1gbCOJH9Vp
विधान परिषद सदस्यत्वाची शपथ घेतल्यानंतर मुख्यमंत्री उद्धव बाळासाहेब ठाकरे यांनी सपत्नीक राज्यपाल @BSKoshyari जी यांची सदिच्छा भेट घेतली. यावेळी मंत्री @AUThackeray उपस्थित होते. pic.twitter.com/PdePQWsEMD
— Office of Uddhav Thackeray (@OfficeofUT) May 18, 2020
डोंबिवलीचे जुने जाणते, अभ्यासू पत्रकार विकास काटदरे यांचे आकस्मिक निधन झाल्याचे समजून दुःख झाले. सामना, मार्मिकच्या माध्यमातून त्यांनी एकीकडे पत्रकारितेचे व्रत जोपासले तर दुसरीकडे शिक्षक म्हणून विद्यार्थ्यांवर संस्कार केले. एक अभ्यासू व संवेदनशील पत्रकार आपण सर्वांनी गमावला आहे.
— Office of Uddhav Thackeray (@OfficeofUT) July 7, 2020
🙏🏼#ShivBhojan pic.twitter.com/n4fSO9bnzX
— Office of Uddhav Thackeray (@OfficeofUT) June 29, 2020
महाराष्ट्राचे राज्यपाल @BSKoshyari जी यांना वाढदिवसाच्या हार्दिक शुभेच्छा! आपणांस उत्तम आरोग्य व दीर्घायुष्य लाभो हीच ईश्वरचरणी प्रार्थना🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/9MH6Eflb38
— Office of Uddhav Thackeray (@OfficeofUT) June 17, 2020
The Zee Group, Mahindra and Mahindra, Deepak Fertilisers and Anand Rathi have contributed for this.
— Office of Uddhav Thackeray (@OfficeofUT) June 14, 2020
Similarly, Min @mieknathshinde ji has also helped make available 30 ambulances for Mumbai and Thane cities. Of these, 5 ambulances have ICU and ventilator facilities. pic.twitter.com/65X42B6ClV
स्वातंत्र्यवीर सावरकर यांच्या जयंती निमित्त मुख्यमंत्री उद्धव बाळासाहेब ठाकरे यांनी आज सकाळी त्यांच्या प्रतिमेस पुष्पहार अर्पण करून विनम्र अभिवादन केले. pic.twitter.com/cCHImSofKk
— Office of Uddhav Thackeray (@OfficeofUT) May 28, 2020
शिवसेना पक्षप्रमुख, मुख्यमंत्री उद्धव बाळासाहेब ठाकरे यांनी आज विधानभवन येथे विधान परिषद सदस्यत्वाची शपथ घेतली. pic.twitter.com/ccdY3M93ZD
— Office of Uddhav Thackeray (@OfficeofUT) May 18, 2020