Balasaheb Thackeray. A Story of Great Hindu nationalist Bal Thackeray was born to Keshav Sitaram Thackeray who is also known as Prabodhankar Thackeray, because of his articles in his fortnightly magazine named Prabodhan or "Enlightenment" in a lower-middle class family. Keshav Thackeray was a progressive social activist and writer who was against caste biases and played a key role in the Samyukta Maharashtra Chalwal that is United Maharashtra Movement in the to form the Marathi-speaking state of Maharashtra along with Mumbai as its capital.
His cartoons were also published in the Sunday edition of The Times of India. In , he launched a cartoon weekly Marmik with his brother. He used it to campaign against the growing influence of non-Marathi people in Mumbai targeting Gujaratis and South Indian labor workers.
He formed the Shiv Sena on June 19th, with the intent of fighting for the rights of the Maharashtrians. The early objective of the Shiv Sena was to ensure job security for Maharashtrians against immigrants from southern India, Gujaratis and Marwaris. Politically, the Shiv Sena was anti-Communist, and wrested control of major trade unions in Mumbai from the Communist Party of India and demanded protection money from mainly gujarati and marwari business leaders. During the tenure of the government from to , Bal Thackeray was nicknamed "remote control" since he played a major role in government policies and decisions from behind-the-scenes.
Thackeray has claimed that the Shiv Sena has helped the Marathi commoner in Mumbai, especially in the public sector. Opposition leftist parties allege that the Shiv Sena has done little to solve the problem of unemployment facing a large proportion of Maharashtrian youth during its tenure, in contradiction to its ideological foundation of 'sons of the soil.
Controversies Thackeray is very vocal in his opposition to people who migrate to Mumbai, to non-Hindus and to illegal Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh. In the late s, as part of his "Maharashtra is for Maharashtrians" campaign, Thackeray threatened migrants from South India with harm unless they left Mumbai. In , Thackeray issued a call to form Hindu suicide squads to counter alleged Muslim violence: If such suicide squads are formed only then can we take on perpetrators of mindless violence.
Urging Hindus to start calling India "Hindu rashtra", he maintained that only "our religion is to be honored here" and then "we will look after other religions". Lt Gen. Hoon claimed, Thackeray instructed him to set up the training camps. Thackeray continues to publish inflammatory editorials in his party's newsletter, Saamana.
Views on Muslims Thackeray's views have typically been highly anti-Muslim, usually attacking them and occasionally sympathizing with them. He has declared that he is not against every Muslim, but only those who reside in this country but do not obey the laws of the land. His party is viewed as being anti-Muslim, though Shiv Sainiks officially reject this accusation.
When explaining his views on Hindutva, he has conflated Islam with violence and has called for Hindus to "fight terrorism and fight Islam". In an interview in Suketu Mehta's book 'Maximum City', he advocates the hanging of Indian Muslims and mass expulsion of Muslim migrants from neighboring Bangladesh.
After entering politics, he became a symbol of Marathi pride and Hindutva. This pioneer of Shiv Sena was worshipped like a god. Thackeray, who changed the direction of Maharashtra politics in every aspect, had the power to convert pompousness into silence by one gesture of his finger. Thackeray, who roared like a lion, departed this life in He was not very good at studies and dropped out of his school very soon.
Since childhood, he was fond of writing and activism. In the s, he took part in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement and stood in the support of the creation of a unified state called Maharashtra for Marathi-speaking areas with Bombay as its capital. He was born to Keshav Sitaram Thackeray and Ramabai. His father was an author and a famous social activist who campaigned against superstition and social evils such as Dowry, Untouchability, and Child marriage.
Bal Thackery had eight siblings and he was the eldest of them. Photographs of Bal Thackeray and his brother Ramesh Thackeray. His wife passed away in and in the subsequent year, his son Bindumadhav Thackeray died in a car accident. He had no daughter. Raj Thackeray is the son of his brother, Shrikant Prabodhankar Thackery.
Raj Thackeray was supposed to take over as the chief of Shiv Sena, but he broke away from Shiv Sena and founded his own party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena in Bal Thackeray with Tejas and Aditya Thackeray.
Thackeray started his career as a cartoonist in Mumbai in the s. Initially, Thackery said that it was not a political party, instead, it was the army of Shivaji, which was working for Maratha Manoos Marathi People.
His party emerged as one of the prominent parties in the state in the next decade and gave two Chief Ministers to the state. Throughout his life, Bal Thackeray had been the centre of controversies. Some major controversies are as follow:.
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