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title: "Interesting Facts about Bala Saheb Thackeray"  
description: "Here are some fascinating facts which will reveal about the life, career, ideology and other facts of the personality of Bala Saheb Thackeray"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-25  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1394/interesting-facts-about-bala-saheb-thackeray  
category: "history"  
tags: ["Bal Thackeray", "Bala Saheb Thackeray", "Shivsena", "facts", "Thackeray"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Interesting Facts about Bala Saheb Thackeray

![Interesting Facts about Bala Saheb Thackeray](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/76e637c4-4b0f-4d30-ac26-bb953cce0969/images/ff5b8457-f1f1-4e9e-b45c-61a8c932a1f7.jpeg) ![Interesting Facts about Bala Saheb Thackeray](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/76e637c4-4b0f-4d30-ac26-bb953cce0969/images/ea4fb25b-99f4-450a-8758-bc3fde9c9b9c.jpeg) Bal Kehav Thackeray was born on 23rd January 1926 to Ramabai and Keshav Sitaram Thackeray ![Interesting Facts about Bala Saheb Thackeray](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/76e637c4-4b0f-4d30-ac26-bb953cce0969/images/dd2b7602-bc7f-4bb6-b048-2de13f840aee.jpeg) He Was a Cartoonist first and later became a Politician ![Interesting Facts about Bala Saheb Thackeray](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/76e637c4-4b0f-4d30-ac26-bb953cce0969/images/a299488e-91b0-4f89-82ed-5d6b27af85d5.jpeg) In 1960 he started his own satirical cartoon weekly ‘Marmik’ ![Interesting Facts about Bala Saheb Thackeray](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/76e637c4-4b0f-4d30-ac26-bb953cce0969/images/6fa7ec42-ee6e-4033-92d6-af943c8bd796.jpeg) Bal Thackeray was heavily influenced by his father’s ideology ![Interesting Facts about Bala Saheb Thackeray](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/76e637c4-4b0f-4d30-ac26-bb953cce0969/images/3c290201-9468-46b8-ae2b-9426571e3d2c.jpeg) On June 19, 1966, he founded the ‘Shiv Sena’, named after the army of the Maratha emperor Shivaji ![Interesting Facts about Bala Saheb Thackeray](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/76e637c4-4b0f-4d30-ac26-bb953cce0969/images/c6c83b2f-5967-4b61-8b41-92d90afc1f6d.jpeg) Being a very popular leader in Maharashtra, he was called “Balasaheb” by his supporters ![Interesting Facts about Bala Saheb Thackeray](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/76e637c4-4b0f-4d30-ac26-bb953cce0969/images/b52080b1-ced7-474f-9c3e-16714f28559b.jpeg) Government of India blamed Thackeray and his supporters for playing major role in Mumbai riots 1992

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