Aaditya Uddhav Thackeray (born 13 June 1990) is an Indian Politician who served as a Cabinet Minister of Higher Education, Cabinet Minister of

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and

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for the

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. He is also an MLA of

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from

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, Maharashtra. He is the son of

Uddhav Thackeray Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (Marathi pronunciation: d̪ʱːəʋ ʈʰaːkɾeː born 27 July 1960) is an Indian politician who served as the 19th Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2019 to 2022. He was also the president of Shiv Sena prior to i ...

, an Indian

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who served as the 19th Chief Minister of Maharashtra, leader of the

Shiv Sena (UBT) Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) (IAST: ; ; SS (UBT)) is a Hindutva-based, Marathi regionalist, nationalist political party formed in 2022 under the leadership of former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray. It was allo ...

, and grandson of Balasaheb Thackeray. He is the President of Yuva Sena, a youth wing of Shiv Sena. He was a Maharashtra

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minister and was inducted as a cabinet minister in the state cabinet on 30 December 2019.

Early life

Aaditya was born to Rashmi Thackeray and

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(now Mumbai), Maharashtra. He has a younger brother, Tejas a wildlife conservationist. He completed his schooling from Bombay Scottish School in

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. Thackeray later obtained a BA History degree while studying at

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. He obtained his law degree from Kishinchand Chellaram Law College in

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, where he earned his LLB degree.

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. He was involved in or initiated a book burning agitation against inclusion of

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's book ' Such a Long Journey', which was insulting Marathis, in

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's reading list in 2010. Thackeray alleged that the book included insulting language against Marathis.

Political career

In October 2019, Thackeray contested the

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from the

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constituencyin Mumbai and subsequently emerged victorious. In doing so, he became the first member of the Thackeray family to contest and win elections. He became the Cabinet Minister for tourism, protocol and environment on 30 December 2019 in the Uddhav Thackeray-led

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government. Prior to getting officially elected, Thackeray played instrumental role in few projects during the Devendra Fadnavis-led government, prominently being a ban of single-use plastics in Maharashtra, which was well received by residents of the state.

Positions held

* 2010: Appointed President of Yuva Sena. * 2017: Elected as President of Mumbai District Football Association. * 2018: Appointed Leader of Shiv Sena Party. * 2019: MLA from Worli constituency. * 2019: Cabinet Minister of Environment,

and Protocol, Government of Maharashtra. * 2020: Appointed guardian minister of

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