Bal thackeray

Mumbai, Mar 18 (PTI) Superstar Rajinikanth on Saturday met Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray at his residence in suburban Mumbai. A party leader said it was a courtesy visit as the veteran actor has been an ardent supporter of the late Bal Thackeray, founder of Shiv Sena. “It was a non-political meeting between Rajinikanth and Uddhav Thackeray,” he said. Thackeray’s wife Rashmi and sons Aaditya and Tejas welcomed the actor at their residence ‘Matoshree’ in suburban Bandra. Aaditya Thackeray, a former minister and sitting MLA, tweeted a picture of his family welcoming Rajinikanth with a bouquet and a shawl. “An absolute delight to have Shri Rajnikant ji at Matoshree once again,” Aaditya tweeted. Rajinikanth had met Bal Thackeray at Matoshree in October 2010. In July 2021, Rajinikanth had announced that he would disband the Rajini Makkal Mandram, launched for his political entry, and reiterated that he had no intention of involving himself in politics in future. The Shiv Sena faction led by Thackeray is a constituent of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), also comprising NCP and Congress. PTI MR NSK NSK NSK This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content. Support Our Journalism India needs fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism, packed with on-ground reporting. ThePrint – with exceptional reporters, columnists and editors – is doing just that. Sustaining this needs support from wonderful readers like you. Whether...

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. • Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives. • In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions. • In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find. • In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history. • Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more. • While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today. • Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians. • Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century. Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! • Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space! Bal Thackeray, in full Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray, (born January 23, 1926, Shiv Sena (“Army of Shiva”) Thackeray began his career in the early 1950s as a cartoonist for the Free Press Journal in Asahi Shimbun and in the Sunday edition of The New York Times. In the 1960s he became increasingly involved in politics....

Full-page advertisements in some leading Marathi dailies featuring PM Modi, Eknath Shinde, Bal Thackeray, Devendra Fadnavis and others have deepened Opposition's doubts about the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra. Opposition leaders also speculate that an "invisible hand from Delhi" is behind shaping the advertisements. By India Today News Desk: Opposition leaders in Maharashtra today took a dig at the Eknath-Shinde-led Shiv Sena and BJP government in Maharashtra amid a raging controversy over two The full-page advertisements, published on Tuesday and Wednesday, have sparked intense speculation, with the opposition claiming that all is not well within the ruling alliance. "It has become clear what is on their mind. But, everything is not good. The government will collapse like a house of cards. There is a proxy war between Shinde and BJP," Uddhav Thackeray's aide Sanjay Raut said today, adding that the new ad was prompted by an upset Devendra Fadnavis. The first advertisement, titled 'Modi for India, Shinde for Maharashtra', appeared in major newspapers in the state on Tuesday and carried photos of PM Modi and Eknath Shinde. It also cited a survey that showed The advertisement claimed that as per a survey, 26.1 per cent of people in Maharashtra wanted Shinde as chief minister while 23.2 per cent wished to see Fadnavis as the next chief minister. Another ad on the state's ruling alliance appeared in Marathi dailies today, featuring Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray...

The controversial leader was a popular figure, who formed Shiv Sena, the army of Shiva, back in 1966 in the Indian state of Maharastra. Over the years, Shiv Sena became notorious as one of the most xenophobic right-wing groups in India, and was responsible for inciting hatred against minority groups, mostly Muslims. The Indian government accused Thackeray and his supporters for playing a The charismatic cartoonist-turned-politician railed against south Indians and Muslims, provoked his men to dig up cricket pitches, drank warm beer, smoked cigars, adored Adolf Hitler, hosted Michael Jackson ('Jackon is a great artist ... his movements are terrific,' he once said), berated women wearing jeans and renamed Bombay. He may have succeeded in changing Bombay's official name to Mumbai, and enforcing the usage by fear. But he found it harder to change the essentially tolerant nature of the city, which did not erupt in retaliatory violence after terrorist attacks such as the ones in November 2008. Bombay continues to lead the way forward for the country. It will take time for the city to heal, but it will. He was not a by-product of the mainstream democratic tradition but an aberration. That’s the reason despite being in the business of politics for almost five decades, he could never become a normal politician. He remained the prisoner of an image; the image of a mafia don who wanted to control a big city on the basis of guns and goons.

Leader who brought ethnic politics to Mumbai melting pot With his brand of rather vicious humour and fondness for mimicry, Bal Thackeray (1926-2012) forged a bond with his followers, speaking to people in a language they could understand. November 17, 2012 05:40 pm | Updated December 04, 2021 10:54 pm IST - Mumbai Bal Thackeray, the man who could bring Mumbai and the entire State of Maharashtra to a standstill by a single command and whose ethnic and communal rhetoric added a strain of perpetual menace to an already fraught metropolis, died on Saturday, November 17. He was 86. Never one to mince his words, he once famously described himself as the “remote control” of the first Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government in Maharashtra in 1995. Two months ago, as the illness to which he eventually succumbed spread, he told Saamna somewhat mirthfully that he didn’t have the remote control for age in his hands. Ever since Thackeray founded the Shiv Sena, or ‘Army of Shivaji,’ in June 19, 1966, it has set the tone for politics in the State. With his brand of rather vicious humour and fondness for mimicry, he forged a bond with his followers, speaking to people in a language they could understand. Exhorted by his father Prabodhankar Thackeray, young Bal formed the Sena as a social organisation. Its aim: to take care of the Marathi manoos, who were ostensibly slighted in their own State by the steady stream of migrants who flocked to the prosperous region. Sons of the soil The s...

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. • Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives. • In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions. • In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find. • In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history. • Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more. • While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today. • Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians. • Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century. Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! • Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space! Bal Thackeray, in full Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray, (born January 23, 1926, Shiv Sena (“Army of Shiva”) Thackeray began his career in the early 1950s as a cartoonist for the Free Press Journal in Asahi Shimbun and in the Sunday edition of The New York Times. In the 1960s he became increasingly involved in politics....

Full-page advertisements in some leading Marathi dailies featuring PM Modi, Eknath Shinde, Bal Thackeray, Devendra Fadnavis and others have deepened Opposition's doubts about the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra. Opposition leaders also speculate that an "invisible hand from Delhi" is behind shaping the advertisements. By India Today News Desk: Opposition leaders in Maharashtra today took a dig at the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and BJP government in Maharashtra amid a raging controversy over two The full-page advertisements, published on Tuesday and Wednesday, have sparked intense speculation, with the opposition claiming that all is not well within the ruling alliance. "It has become clear what is on their mind. But, everything is not good. The government will collapse like a house of cards. There is a proxy war between Shinde and BJP," Uddhav Thackeray's aide Sanjay Raut said today, adding that the new ad was prompted by an upset Devendra Fadnavis. The first advertisement, titled 'Modi for India, Shinde for Maharashtra', appeared in major newspapers in the state on Tuesday and carried photos of PM Modi and Eknath Shinde. It also cited a survey that showed The advertisement claimed that as per a survey, 26.1 per cent of people in Maharashtra wanted Shinde as chief minister while 23.2 per cent wished to see Fadnavis as the next chief minister. Another ad on the state's ruling alliance appeared in Marathi dailies today, featuring Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray...

Mumbai, Mar 18 (PTI) Superstar Rajinikanth on Saturday met Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray at his residence in suburban Mumbai. A party leader said it was a courtesy visit as the veteran actor has been an ardent supporter of the late Bal Thackeray, founder of Shiv Sena. “It was a non-political meeting between Rajinikanth and Uddhav Thackeray,” he said. Thackeray’s wife Rashmi and sons Aaditya and Tejas welcomed the actor at their residence ‘Matoshree’ in suburban Bandra. Aaditya Thackeray, a former minister and sitting MLA, tweeted a picture of his family welcoming Rajinikanth with a bouquet and a shawl. “An absolute delight to have Shri Rajnikant ji at Matoshree once again,” Aaditya tweeted. Rajinikanth had met Bal Thackeray at Matoshree in October 2010. In July 2021, Rajinikanth had announced that he would disband the Rajini Makkal Mandram, launched for his political entry, and reiterated that he had no intention of involving himself in politics in future. The Shiv Sena faction led by Thackeray is a constituent of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), also comprising NCP and Congress. PTI MR NSK NSK NSK This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content. Support Our Journalism India needs fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism, packed with on-ground reporting. ThePrint – with exceptional reporters, columnists and editors – is doing just that. Sustaining this needs support from wonderful readers like you. Whether...

Leader who brought ethnic politics to Mumbai melting pot With his brand of rather vicious humour and fondness for mimicry, Bal Thackeray (1926-2012) forged a bond with his followers, speaking to people in a language they could understand. November 17, 2012 05:40 pm | Updated December 04, 2021 10:54 pm IST - Mumbai Bal Thackeray, the man who could bring Mumbai and the entire State of Maharashtra to a standstill by a single command and whose ethnic and communal rhetoric added a strain of perpetual menace to an already fraught metropolis, died on Saturday, November 17. He was 86. Never one to mince his words, he once famously described himself as the “remote control” of the first Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government in Maharashtra in 1995. Two months ago, as the illness to which he eventually succumbed spread, he told Saamna somewhat mirthfully that he didn’t have the remote control for age in his hands. Ever since Thackeray founded the Shiv Sena, or ‘Army of Shivaji,’ in June 19, 1966, it has set the tone for politics in the State. With his brand of rather vicious humour and fondness for mimicry, he forged a bond with his followers, speaking to people in a language they could understand. Exhorted by his father Prabodhankar Thackeray, young Bal formed the Sena as a social organisation. Its aim: to take care of the Marathi manoos, who were ostensibly slighted in their own State by the steady stream of migrants who flocked to the prosperous region. Sons of the soil The s...

The controversial leader was a popular figure, who formed Shiv Sena, the army of Shiva, back in 1966 in the Indian state of Maharastra. Over the years, Shiv Sena became notorious as one of the most xenophobic right-wing groups in India, and was responsible for inciting hatred against minority groups, mostly Muslims. The Indian government accused Thackeray and his supporters for playing a The charismatic cartoonist-turned-politician railed against south Indians and Muslims, provoked his men to dig up cricket pitches, drank warm beer, smoked cigars, adored Adolf Hitler, hosted Michael Jackson ('Jackon is a great artist ... his movements are terrific,' he once said), berated women wearing jeans and renamed Bombay. He may have succeeded in changing Bombay's official name to Mumbai, and enforcing the usage by fear. But he found it harder to change the essentially tolerant nature of the city, which did not erupt in retaliatory violence after terrorist attacks such as the ones in November 2008. Bombay continues to lead the way forward for the country. It will take time for the city to heal, but it will. He was not a by-product of the mainstream democratic tradition but an aberration. That’s the reason despite being in the business of politics for almost five decades, he could never become a normal politician. He remained the prisoner of an image; the image of a mafia don who wanted to control a big city on the basis of guns and goons.