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The Shiv Sena was launched in 1966. Since then, no member of the family that founded it — Bal Thackeray, his son Uddhav and his grandson, Aaditya — has ever contested an election.
That is about to change now with Aaditya being fielded as a candidate for the middle class-dominated Worli constituency in Mumbai. Both — the choice of candidate and the constituency — are important, for they tell us about the future political trajectory of the Shiv Sena.
But first, a word about the youngest Thackeray. He is a poet and photographer. His first book of poems, My Thoughts in White
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