CURRENT AFFAIRS

PRESENTED BY:KRISHIKA GOR

MAITRI PANCHAL
ROSHINI SAROJ
AISHANI PRADHAN
SHREYA JAISWAL
UDDHAV BAL
THACKERAY
• UDDHAV BAL THACKERAY IS AN INDIAN POLITICIAN,SERVING AS THE 19 TH AND CURRENT
CHIEF MINISTER OF MAHARASHTRA
• HE IS PRESIDENT OF SHIV SENA
• ABOUT HIS EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION UDDHAV THACKERAY WAS BORN ON 27 TH JULY 1960
AS THE YOUNGEST BAL THACKERAY AND HIS WIFE MEENA THACKERAY’S THREE SONS
•  HEDID HIS SCHOOLING IN BALMOHAN VIDYAMANDIR AND GRADUATED FROM SIR J.J
INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ARTS WITH PHOTOGRAPHY AS HIS MAIN SUBJECT.
EARLY POLITICAL
CARRER
• IN 2002 THACKERAY STARTED HIS POLITICAL CAREER AS A CAMPAIGN INCHARGE OF SHIV SENA IN
BRIHAN MUMBAI MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ELECTIONS WHERE THE PARTY PERFORMED WELL
• IN 2003 HE WAS APPOINTED AS THE WORKING PRESIDENT OF SHIV SENA,UDHAV TOOK OVER AS THE
CHIEF EDITOR OF PARTY MOUTHPIECE SAAMNA (A daily MARATHI language newspaper published by
SHIV SENA) IN 2006 AND RESIGNED IN 2019 BEFORE BECOMING THE CHIEF MINISTER OF
MAHARASHTRA
• A SPLIT IN SHIV SENA HAPPENED WHEN HIS BROTHER RAJ THACKERAY LEFT THE PARTY IN 2006 TO
FROM HIS OWN PARTY NAMED MAHARASHTRA NAVNIRMAN SENA
• AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER BAL THACKERAY IN 2012 HE LED THE PARTY AND GOT ELECTED AS
THE SHIV SENA PRESIDENT IN 2013,AND UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP THE SHIV SENA JOINED THE NDA
GOVERNMENT IN 2014
FUNCTION AND POWERS OF
CM
• THE CHIEF MINISTER OF MAHARASHTRA IS THE HEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
INDIAN STATE OF MAHARASHTRA
• FOLLOWING ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY,THE GOVERNOR INVITES THE
PARTY WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE SEATS TO FORM THE GOVERNMENT AND
APPOINTS THE CHIEF MINISTER
• IF THE APOINTEE IS NOT A MEMBER OF EITHER THE ASSEMBLY OR THE LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL OF MAHARASHTRA,THEN THE CONSTITUTION STIPULATES THAT THEY NEED
TO BE ELECTED WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF BEING SWORN-IN
• THE OFFICE OF THE CM IS COTERMINOUS WITH THE CONCURRENT ASSEMBLY
PROVIDED THE CM COMMANDS CONFIDENCE IN THE HOUSE AND HENCE DOESN’T
EXCEED FIVE YEARS
 CHIEF MINISTER OF MAHARASHTRA

• THOUGH THACKERAY NEVER TOOK ANY CONSTUTIONAL POST IN HIS POLITICAL CAREER INITIALLY,HOWEVER A BRIEF
POLITICAL CRISIS ON 28 NOVEMBER 2019 HE TOOK THE OATH AS 19TH CHIEF MINISTER OF MAHARASHTRA AFTER
BEING ELECTED AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE NEWLY FORMED POST-POLL COALITON MAHA VIKAS AGADHI

• AFTER THE FIFTY DAYS SINCE THE MAHA VIKAS AGHADI (MVA) GOVERNMNET COMPRISING THE SHIV SENA,NCP AND
THE CONGRESS ASSUMED POWER IN MAHARASHTRA,THE INITIATIVES WHICH WERE TAKEN BY THE MAHARASHTRA
GOVERNMENT WERE

• CM THACKERAY HAS ANNOUNCED AN ALLOTMENT OF 20 CR FOR RAIGAD-THE CAPITAL OF

CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI MAHARAJ
• METRO PROJECTS WILL BE LAUNCHED IN THANE,NASHIK,AFTER THEY WERE LAUNCHED IN PUNE AND
NAGPUR
• CM UDDHAV THACKERAY ANNOUNCED ‘SHIV BHOJAN’ SCHEME WHICH PROVIDES SUBSIDISED MEALS
AT RS.10
• THE MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED THAT A SUM OF 24 CR WOULD BE GRANTED TO THE
WADIA HOSPITAL,AND ALSO DIRECTED THE BMC TO REALEASE ITS SHARE OF 22CR,THIS HAS BEEN
DONE SO THAT THE WADIA MATERNITY AND CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL CAN RESUME ITS OPERATION
• MAHARASHTRA TOURISM MINISTER AADITYA THACKERAY ANNOUNCED THAT MALLS,SHOPS,PUBS IN
MUMBAI WILL HAVE THE OPTION TO REMAIN OPEN 24/7 FROM 26 JANUARY 2019
 ACHIEVEMENTS OF UDDHAV
THACKERAY
HAVING ENTERED POLITICS AT A VERY LATE AGE,HE HAS HAD ONLY A FEW SHORT YEARS TO PROVE
HIS METTLE TO HIS PARTY AND THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA IN GENERAL
• UNDER HIS CAPABLE GUIDANCE,HIS PARTY SWEPT THE 2002 BMC ELECTIONS
• UDDHAV THACKERAY ALSO MANAGED TO REIN IN THE SHIV SENA WORKERS,WHO WERE KNOWN
FOR THEIR VIOLENT ACTIVITES,AND HAS MOBILIZED THEM IN MUCH MORE ORGANIZED
MANNER
• MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS OF UDDHAV THACKERAY ARE:
• SECURING A WIN FOR SHIV SENA IN THE 2002 BMC ELECTION WHIILE WORKING AS THE SHIV
SENA CHIEF CAMPAIGNER
• ORGANIZNG A SUCCESFUL DEBT RELIEF CAMPAIGN FOR THE FARMERS OF THE VIDHARBHA
DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA,FARMERS IN THE REGION WERE UNDER HEAVY DEBT FOLLOWING A
LONG DRY SPELL IN THE REGION IN 2007 AND THE SUICIDE RATES AMONG THE FARMERS WENT
THROUGH THE ROOF
• THACKERAY STEPPED IN AND THE WORKED TOWARDS IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS WHEN
THE STATE AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FAILED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
ACHIEVEMENTS OF
UDDHAV THACKERAY
• LED SHIV SENA TO A WIN IN THE BMC ELECTION IN THE YEAR 2012,BJP AND SHIV
SENA EMERGED AS THE LEADING PARTIES IN THESE ELECTIONS
• HE SHIFTED THIS THE FOCUS OF THE CAMPAIGN FROM REGIONALISM TO
DEVELOPMENT,IT WAS AN UNPRECENTED MOVE ON HIS PART,SINCE THE SLOGAN OF
‘MARATHI MANOOS’ HAS BEEN AT THE HEART OF SHIV SENA’S IDOELOGY
• HE HAS SUCCEEDED IN TRANSFORMING THE IMAGE OF SHIV SENA FROM A VIOLENT
AND OFTEN MILITANT OUTFIT,TO THAT OF A WELL ORGANIZED UNIT THAT IS RUN BY
SOMEONE WHO CARES ABOUT THE STATE AND WELFARE
PERSONAL LIFE
• UDDHAV THACKERAY IS MARRIED TO RASHMI THACKERAY AND HAS TWO
SONS,ADITYA AND TEJAS
• THE ELDER SON ADITYA IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE YUVA SENA
• THACKERAY HAS TAKEN A KEEN INTEREST IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND HAS EXHIBITED
HIS COLLECTION OF AERIAL SHOTS OF VARIOUS FORTS OF MAHARASHTRA AT THE
JEHANGIR ART GALLERY IN2004
• HE HAS ALSO PUBLSHED PHOTO BOOKS MAHARASHTRA DESH(2010) AND PAHAVA
VITTHAL(2011),CAPTURING VARIOUS ASPECTS OF MAHARASHTRA AND THE
WARKARIS DURING PADHARPUR WARI RESPECTIVELY IN THE BOOKS
THANKYOUU!!