Bal Thackeray, popularly known as Balasaheb Thackeray, was an Indian politician who founded Shiv Sena, a political party exhibiting right-wing pro-Marathi and Hindu Nationalist ideology, majorly active in India’s second-most populous state – Maharashtra.

Bal Thackeray was born on 23 January 1996 in Pune. On 23 January 2023, it will be Thackeray’s 97th birth anniversary.