Bal Thackeray Personal details Born 23 January 1926 [ 1 ] Pune , [ 2 ] Bombay Presidency Died 17 November 2012 (aged 86) [ 3 ] Mumbai , India Political party Shiv Sena Spouse(s) Mina Thackeray Children Bindumadhav Thackeray Jaidev Thackeray Uddhav Thackeray [ 4 ] Residence Mumbai Signature Website shivsena.org Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray ( IPA: [ʈʰakəɾe] ; 23 January 1926 [ 1 ] – 17 November 2012 [ 5 ] ) was an Indian politician, founder and chief of the Shiv Sena , a right-wing Hindu nationalist , and Marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra . His followers called him the Hindu Hriday Samraat ("Emperor of Hindu Hearts"). [ 6 ] Thackeray began his professionalcareer as a cartoonist with the English language daily The Free Press Journal in Mumbai , but left it in 1960 to form his own political weekly Marmik . His political philosophy was largely shaped by his father Keshav Sitaram Thackeray , a leading figure in the Samyukta Maharashtra movement (United Maharashtra movement), which advocated the creation of a separate linguistic state of Maharashtra. Through Marmik , hecampaigned against the growing influence of Gujaratis , Marwaris , and south Indians in Mumbai. [ 1 ] In 1966, Thackeray formed the Shiv Sena party to advocate morestrongly the place of Maharashtrians in Mumbai 's political and professional landscape. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Thackeray built the party by forming temporary alliances with nearly all of Maharashtra's political parties. [ 7 ] Thackeray was also the founderof the Marathi-language newspaper Saamana and the Hindi-language newspaper Dopahar ka saamana . [ 8 ] He was the subject of numerous controversies. [ 7 ] Upon his death, he was accorded a state funeral with over 2,000,000 mourners.

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