Aaditya Thackeray

Aditya Uddhav Thackeray (born 13 June 1990) is an Indian Politician serving as Cabinet Minister of Tourism and Environment Government of Maharashtra. He is also MLA of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is the son of Uddhav Thackeray, an Indian politician serving as the 19th and current Chief Minister of Maharashtra, leader of the Shiv Sena, and grandson of Bal Thackeray.[1] He is the President of Yuva Sena, a youth wing of Shiv Sena. He has been elected as cabinet minister in state cabinet on 30 December 2019.

Aditya Thackeray
Minister (Environment and climate , Tourism, Protocol), Government of Maharashtra
Assumed office
30 December 2019
GovernorBhagat Singh Koshiyari
Minister of
Chief MinisterUddhav Thackeray
Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
24 November 2019
Preceded bySunil Govind Shinde
ConstituencyWorli
President, Mumbai District Football Association
Assumed office
2017
President of Yuva Sena
Assumed office
17 October 2010
Preceded byoffice established
Personal details
Born (1990-06-13) 13 June 1990
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Political partyShiv Sena
RelationsPrabodhankar Thackeray (great-grandfather)
Bal Thackeray (Grandfather)
Raj Thackeray (Uncle)
Tejas Thackeray (Brother)
See Thackeray Family
MotherRashmi Thackeray
FatherUddhav Thackeray
ResidenceMatoshree, Bandra, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Alma materSt. Xavier's College, Mumbai (BA)
K C Law College (LLB)

Early life

Aditya was born to Rashmi Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray in Bombay (now Mumbai). He is their elder son, Tejas Thackeray being the younger son. He completed his schooling from an unaided Christian minority school named, Bombay Scottish School, Mahim in Mumbai and earned a BA History degree while studying at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He did his post-graduation from K C Law College, Mumbai where he earned his LLB degree.[2]

Work

His first book of poems, 'My Thoughts in White and Black', was published in 2007. The following year, he turned lyricist and released a private album Ummeed, for which he wrote all the eight songs.[3]

He was involved in or initiated a book burning agitation against inclusion of Rohinton Mistry's book 'Such a Long Journey', which was critical of his party's violent actions, in Mumbai University's reading list in 2010. Thackeray alleged that the book included insulting language against his family and Marathis[4][5]

Political career

In October 2019, he contested for the MLA seat in the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election from the Worli constituency of Mumbai and subsequently emerged victorious. In doing so, he became the first member of the Thackeray Family to contest the elections and also the first member of the family to win the elections.[6] He became the Cabinet Minister for tourism, protocol and environment on 30th December 2019 in Shiv Sena Government.

Positions held
  • 2010: Appointed as President of Yuva Sena
  • 2017: Elected as President of Mumbai District Football Association [7]
  • 2018: Appointed as Leader of Shiv Sena Party [8]
  • 2019: MLA from Worli constituency
  • 2019: Cabinet Minister of Environment, Tourism and Protocol, Government of Maharashtra
  • 2020: Appointed as guardian minister of Mumbai Suburban district[9]

References
  1. "Biography of Aditya Thackeray". in.com. Archived from the original on 29 September 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  2. Mahamulkar, Sujit (4 October 2019). "Aaditya Thackeray net worth: 29-year-old Aaditya Thackeray has assets worth Rs 16.05 crore". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 6 October 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  3. Chatterji, Saubhadra (14 December 2010). "Tea with BS: Aditya Thackeray". Business Standard India. Business Thackeray.
  4. Burke, Jason (19 October 2010). "Mumbai University drops Rohinton Mistry novel after extremists complain". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  5. Burke, Jason (27 November 2014). "Aditya Thackeray: 24-year-old scion of India's controversial political dynasty". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  6. "Maharashtra Assembly election: Aaditya Thackeray becomes first from family to enter state legislature". India Today. 24 October 2019. Archived from the original on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  7. "Aaditya Thackeray appointed MDFA president". Archived from the original on 24 March 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  8. "आदित्य ठाकरेंची शिवसेनेच्या नेतेपदी वर्णी". Archived from the original on 17 October 2018. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  9. "Maharashtra govt appoints guardian ministers for all 36 districts".
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