Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday paid tribute to the Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray who died in Mumbai on Saturday afternoon after prolonged illness. "A political era in Maharashtra politics has come to an end after the passing away of the Octogenarian Shiv Sena leader," Kumar said in a condolence message.
Thackeray had a special place in the political annals in Maharashtra, he said. The RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi also mourned the death of the Shiv Sena leader.
Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, the state unit BJP president CP Thakur and other party leaders have also mourned Thackeray's demise.
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Bal Keshav Thackeray (1926-2012), popularly known as Balasaheb Thackeray, is the founder and chief of the Shiv Sena, a Hindu nationalist, Marathi ethnocentric and populist party active mainly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.
He sta ...
Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951, Bakhtiarpur, Bihar, India) is the Chief Minister of the north Indian state of Bihar. He is the top leader of Janata Dal (United) party. His name may also be written Nitīś Kumār, following the Hindi orthograp ...
Shiv Sena, is a right-wing organization in India founded on 19 June 1966 by Bal Thackeray. It is currently headed by Thackeray's son, Uddhav Thackeray.
The party originally emerged out of a movement in Mumbai, (then known by its colonial ...
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