Aaditya Thackeray was on Monday elected the Shiv Sena (UBT) legislature party leader at a meeting of the party legislators in Mumbai.
Aaditya, son of party president Uddhav Thackeray, defeated Milind Deora of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena in the recent assembly elections from Worli constituency by 8,801 votes.
His winning margin dipped compared to the last elections in 2019, where it was 67,427 votes.
Senior party leader Ambadas Danve told reporters after the meeting of party legislators that former minister Bhaskar Jadhav was elected
the party group leader in the state assembly, while Sunil Prabhu was named the party’s chief whip.
Aditya Thackeray has been the Worli MLA since 2019.
His support base among the youth has made him popular. He earned goodwill for many of his policies since his stint as cabinet minister of environment and tourism.
His work towards the ban of single use plastic in the state and petitioned for the Aarey forest to be protected from the building of a metro car shed have enabled him to garner votes.
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