Balasaheb Thackeray

Bal Thackeray (born January 23, 1927) is the founder and supremo of the political party Shiv Sena in India.

He started his career as a cartoonist in the Free Press Journal, Mumbai. His cartoons were also published in the Sunday edition of The New York Times.

He likes to refer to himself as a hard-core nationalist. People of his party - the Shiv Sena - and some others refer to him as Hindu Hridaysamrat (Ruler of the heart of the Hindu).

Bal Thackeray is known for his intolerant stance towards people of other states in India and people of other religions. In the late 1970s, he told all South Indians to leave Bombay or face the consequences. In the early 1990s, he was also intolerant to Muslims, and in the late 1990s, Secularist, Christians (not all Christians) and non-Marathi speaking people and recently people of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

His party is intolerant to anyone who criticizes or badmouths Shivaji (The party derived its name from the Maratha King).