Rashmi Thackeray (

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Patankar) is an Indian journalist and the editor-in-chief of ''

Saamana ''Saamana'' is a Marathi-language newspaper published in Maharashtra, India. The paper was launched on 23 January 1988 by Bal Thackeray, the founder of the Shiv Sena, a local, regional and language driven; political party; in the Indian sta ...

'' and ''

Marmik ''Marmik'' () is an Indian weekly published by the Shiv Sena from Mumbai Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital ...

''. She is the spouse of Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra,

Uddhav Thackeray Uddhav Bal 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 and the Leader of the House, Maharashtra Legislative Ass ...

and the mother of

Aaditya Thackeray Aaditya Uddhav Thackeray (born 13 June 1990) is an Indian politician who served as a Cabinet Minister of Higher Education, Cabinet Minister of Tourism and Environment for the Government of Maharashtra. He is also an MLA of the Maharashtra L ...

Early life and family

The daughter of businessman Madhav Patankar of

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, she attended V G Vaze College in

Mulund Mulund (Pronunciation: uluɳɖ is a suburb in the north-east of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It comes under the zone railway station on the Central Railway line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway. It was first the railway station of the Mumbai ...

for her

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degree. She joined the

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as a contract employee in 1987. A friend of

Raj Thackeray Raj Shrikant Thackeray (Marathi pronunciation: �aːd͡ʒ ʈʰaːkɾeː born Swararaj Shrikant Thackeray; 14 June 1968) is an maharashtra politician and the founding chairperson of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), a regional political party ...

's sister, Jaywanti, she met

. The couple got married in 1989. The couple have two sons,

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(Former

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and Environment

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) and Tejas.

References

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