"Bal" Keshav Thackeray, popularly called 'Balasaheb', 'Sher', 'Tiger', or "Hindu Hridaysamrat," is the founder and president of the Shiv Sena, a Hindu nationalist and populist party active mainly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Wikipedia
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Thackeray takes all major decisions. He even ran the Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government of 1995 to 1999 with what he called a 'remote control.' in.rediff.com/election/2004/apr/23espec3.htm
Although he holds no official post, Bal Thackeray is often described as the uncrowned monarch of the western Indian state of Maharashtra. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/841488.stm
