Aaditya Thackeray

“A drone was caught peeping into our residence this morning, and when the media learnt about it, the @MMRDAOfficial is saying it was a survey being done for BKC with permission of the Mumbai Police," he wrote.

At the CNN-News18 Townhall, Aaditya Thackeray claimed, “For the last 7–8 years, the EC has prevented free and fair elections in India," arguing that the institution’s credibility was at stake.

In a significant development, Satish Salian, father of Disha Salian, met a senior Mumbai police officer on March 27, 2025, demanding action and an FIR against Aaditya Thackeray and others.

An FIR has been filed in the Disha Salian death case, naming several high-profile individuals, including Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray, actress Rhea Chakraborty, and actors Dino Morea and Suraj Pancholi, among others.

Addressing a press conference, he said Mumbaikars have to bear dug-up roads, non-operational buses of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) and contaminated water, but the BJP government does not have an answer to these issues.

Asked about Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi citing Savarkar’s criticism of the Constitution, Thackeray said the discussion on the Constitution should focus on the country’s future

Addressing a news conference, Thackeray demanded that Shinde as well as Deepak Kesarkar and Mangal Prabhat Lodha, who were the guardian ministers of Mumbai city and Mumbai suburbs, respectively, be kept out of the new government as the road contracts were awarded during their tenure as ministers.

“Sometimes the state unit of the SP acts like the B team of the BJP. (SP national chief) Akhilesh Yadavji is fighting the battle (against the BJP). But don’t get me started on who the state SP helped in the recent (assembly) polls,” Thackeray told reporters.

However, party leaders like Uddhav Thackeray, Aaditya Thackeray, and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut are reportedly keen on maintaining the MVA to present a united opposition against the BJP.

Aaditya, son of party president Uddhav Thackeray, defeated Milind Deora of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena in the recent assembly elections from Worli

The seat is set for a tight contest primarily between Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Aaditya Thackeray and Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction) leader Milind Deora, who currently serves as Rajya Sabha MP from Maharashtra.

Milind Deora, a former Congress leader and Union minister of state, joined the Sena before the Lok Sabha polls this year and was subsequently elected to the Rajya Sabha.

Mumbai, Oct 16 Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Wednesday said that if the MVA returns to power in Maharashtra, it will not scrap the incumbe..

Aaditya Thackeray said the government's announcement, coming just ahead of the announcement of Assembly elections, reeked of desperation.

Thackeray wondered why the men in khaki were being asked to fill the craters instead of the contracted firms owned by the allies of the BJP and the ruling alliance.

Addressing a rally in Dharavi on Saturday, Thackeray claimed the then BJP chief Amit Shah had come to 'Matoshree', the private residence of the Thackerays, to seek an alliance with Shiv Sena (undivided).

He also sought to know if the 'wagh nakh' (tiger claw-shaped weapon) being brought to Maharashtra from a museum in United Kingdom would stay here permanently or was it on loan and whether it belonged to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj or was it from the era of the legendary warrior king.

The civic body is set to buy thousands of street benches (almost 40,000) and planters (containers in which plants are grown) as part of the project, said Aaditya Thackeray, and asked where will the BMC install all these items.

Aaditya Thackeray is scheduled to join the foot march around 4 pm along with Leader of Opposition in the state Legislative Council Ambadas Danve and Sena legislator Sachin Ahir, the Congress has said.

Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor plant in the state which eventually shifted to Gujarat. He said several meetings had taken place between Vedanta officials and the previous government early this year. A fresh war of words has broken out between the ruling Eknath Shinde dispensation and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)-led opposition over the Rs 22,000 crore project to manufacture C-295 military transport aircraft moving from Maharashtra to Vadodara in Gujarat.