2.  Bal Keshav Thackeray born 23 January 1927, popularly known as Balasaheb Thackeray, is the founder and chief of the Shiv Sena  Thackeray, who used to work alongside R K Laxman as cartoonists forThe Free Press Journal, formed the Shiv Sena to promote the interests of 'sons of the soil,' Maharashtrian youth.  In those years jobs were going to migrants from South India and the anti-Communist Sena picked up this issue. 11/25/20152 Seema Narendran, Ramnarain Ruia College

3.  In 1960, the bilingual state of Bombay was bifurcated into Gujarat and Maharashtra, and after a bitter struggle, Bombay was retained as capital. But the Maharashtrians soon realised that they weren't really in charge of the city's destiny—the Gujaratis and Marwaris controlled big business while the white collar was worn by the South Indians, derisively referred to as the "lungiwallas". 11/25/20153 Seema Narendran, Ramnarain Ruia College

4.  On the emotive plank of giving to the Maharashtrian youth what was rightfully his, the Shiv Sena was born on June 19, 1966 in Thackeray's flat in Shivaji Park. News of the foundling organisation spread rapidly, fanned by Thackeray's periodical 'Marmik'. The magazine began to publish lists of employees working in different companies—it was apparent that most of the surnames were non-Maharashtrian. The lists which appeared under the goading caption, 'Vaacha ani gappa basa' (Read and keep quiet), had the desired effect. South Indians were targetted with the war cry "Bajao pungi, bhagao lungi". 11/25/20154 Seema Narendran, Ramnarain Ruia College

5.  Its slogan -- 'lungi hatao pungi bajao' -- caught the imagination of Maharashtrian youth who flocked to its flag in huge numbers.  Before the Sena rose to power in Mumbai the Communist Party of India had a strong presence among textile workers in the city. Its popular leader Krishna Desai, a member of the Maharashtra assembly, was murdered and the Sena was blamed for it. 11/25/20155 Seema Narendran, Ramnarain Ruia College

6.  Companies, especially those in the public sector, succumbed to the Sena's violent tactics and began employing Maharashtrians in large numbers. The Sena thus succeeded in fulfilling a critical economic need of the Maharashtrians and in return was supported by a solid socio- political vote-bank. 11/25/20156 Seema Narendran, Ramnarain Ruia College

7.  Ideology The Sena maintains its Hindutva ideology and is a right-wing political party. It dumped its anti-South Indian stand in 1970 and drifted to Hindutva after a long spell in the wilderness in the 1970s. 11/25/20157 Seema Narendran, Ramnarain Ruia College

8.  The inflammatory editorials published in the party newspaper, Saamna in 1992 following the demolition of the Babri masjid led to a lot of violence  A judicial committee, which investigated the ensuing communal riots, Thackeray of sparking anti-Muslim violence in Mumbai, which led to more than 1,000 deaths. 11/25/20158 Seema Narendran, Ramnarain Ruia College

9.  "It was not 'outsiders' but Maharashtrians themselves who stabbed us in the back," said the October 24, 2009 editorial in Saamna.  The Sena chief however distanced himself from the editorial that blamed the 'Marathimanoos' for the party's debacle in the assembly elections  The issue raised was that who then writes the editorials 11/25/2015 Seema Narendran, Ramnarain Ruia College9

10.  It is no secret in media circles that the editorial comment that goes in the name of agingThackeray, who is keeping frail health, is penned by Sanjay Raut, executive editor of the newspaper  The most recent high profile editorial was on Sachin Tendulkar in 2009 over the latter's ‘Mumbai for all’ remark. 11/25/201510 Seema Narendran, Ramnarain Ruia College