Uddhav Thackeray

Trivia

• In March 2009,at a rally in Mumbai, Uddhav Thackeray abused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and called him a eunuch. Congress took strongly to these remarks and also demanded an apology. an FIR was also launched against Uddhav Thackeray for these remarks.
• Uddhav Thackeray's son Aditya is also a photographer and a budding poet with his first book of poems 'White and Black' published in May 2007.
• Uddhav Thackeray is a wildlife enthusiast and photographer. He holds regular exhibitions of his photographs from forests, nature parks and sites of historic interest around the world.
• Since 2007, Uddhav Thackeray has been campaigning for debt relief to farmers in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra where a large number of farmer suicides have taken place.
• Initially, Uddhav Thackeray was not too keen to join politics, and instead was into art and nature. In spite of this, the party won the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation election in 2002 under his stewardship, and he was appointed the party working president in 2003.
• He was given this role in 2004, taking over the mantle from his father and party founder Bal Thackeray.
• Uddhav Thackeray is the executive president of the Shiv Sena, a regional political party based in the Indian state of Maharashtra.