“If the NRC comes into effect, it will have an impact on the indigenous people too, will effect Hindus and Muslims, as well as indigenous people”- Uddhav Thackeray said this while commenting on the implementation of NRC (National Register of Citizens). He went on to add that so far the Central Government has not held any talks regarding NRC with them. He further said, “Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) are two different issues, and the National Population Register (NPR) is different. Nobody needs to worry if CAA is implemented”. The Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena Supremo Uddav Thackeray made these comments on tuesday.
About Uddhav Thackeray
Uddhav Bal Thackeray (born 27 July 1960) is an Indian politician serving as the 19th and current Chief Minister of Maharashtra.[2][3][4] He is the president of Shiv Sena, a Marathi regional and Hindu nationalist political party. Thackeray is keen in photography and has exhibited his collection of aerial shots of various forts of Maharashtra at the Jehangir Art Gallery in 2004.[12][13] He has also published photo-books Maharashtra Desh (2010) and Pahava Vitthal (2011), capturing various aspects of Maharashtra and the warkaris during Pandharpur Wari respectively in the two books.[14][15]
In 2002, Thackeray started his political career as campaign incharge of Shiv Sena in the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation elections where the party performed well. In 2003, he was appointed as working president of Shiv Sena. Uddhav took over as chief editor of party mouthpiece Saamana (a daily Marathi-language newspaper published by Shiv Sena) in 2006 and resigned in 2019 before becoming chief minister of Maharashtra.[6] A split in Shiv Sena happened when his cousin Raj Thackeray left the party in 2006 to form his own party named Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.[7] After the death of his father Bal Thackeray in 2012, he led the party and got elected as Shiv Sena president in 2013, and under his leadership Shiv Sena joined the NDA government in Maharashtra in 2014. [8 Though Thackeray never took any constitutional post in his political career initially, on 28 November 2019 he took the oath as 19th Chief minister of Maharashtra after being elected as leader of the newly formed post-poll coalition Maha Vikas Aghadi.[9][3][4]
