''Saamana'' is a

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newspaper published in Maharashtra, India. The paper was launched on 23 January 1988 by

Bal Thackeray Bal Thackeray (; 23 January 1926 – 17 November 2012), also known as Balasaheb Thackeray, was an Indian politician who founded the Shiv Sena, a right-wing pro- Marathi and Hindu nationalist party active mainly in the state of Maharashtra ...

, the founder of the Shiv Sena, a local, regional and language driven; political party; in the Indian state of Maharashtra. A Hindi version of the paper, ''Dopahar Ka Saamana'' popularly known as Hindi Saamana, was launched on 23 February 1993.

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'' attributes the founding of ''Saamana'' to Thackeray's dissatisfaction about the amount of press he and his party received in other news outlets. It has been described it as a mouthpiece of the Shiv Sena, providing a link to Thackeray that did not exist previously. ''Firstpost'' also reports that while other newspapers allowed bias to creep into their news coverage, ''Saamana'' provided relatively unbiased news coverage of government policy and civic matters. It was only news about the Shiv Sena that was biased. According to the ''

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'', ''Saamana'' played a "significant role during the 1992–93 riots", and Thackeray was "not beyond publishing lies and exaggerating the extent of the violence indulged in by the opposing groups and inciting Shiv Sainiks to do their worst." Bal Thackeray edited both newspapers until his death on 17 November 2012. To honour him, Thackeray's son

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named him as the "founder-editor". Until 27 November 2019, the chief editor of ''Saamana'' and ''Dopahar Ka Saamana'' was

, but when he was elected as Chief Minister of Maharashtra he resigned from this position. Now the

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of the Marathi newspaper is Rashmi Thackeray and the resident editor of the Hindi newspaper is Anil Tiwari. In September 2020, the newspaper came into controversy for publishing an article with the title 'Tod Diya' which means 'We Broke It' in Hindi. This article referred to the demolition of the office of the Bollywood actress

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by the

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''Saamana'' e-PaperAt the launch of ''Saamana''
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