Uddhav Thackeray took oath as CM of Maharashtra

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray sworn in as the 18th Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
Mr. Thackeray was sworn in by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari along with six Cabinet ministers — two each from the Sena, Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
He is the third Shiv Sena CM after Manohar Joshi and Narayan Rane and the first member of the Thackeray family to hold the top post in the richest State.
Born on July 27, 1960, in Mumbai, Mr. Thackeray studied at Balmohan Vidyamandir and later graduated from JJ School of Arts, where photography was his main subject. Besides being a published author, he is also a professional photographer whose work has appeared in various magazines and has been showcased at numerous exhibitions.
He largely lived in the shadow of his father before coming into his own after being appointed the Sena’s working president in January 2003. Mr. Thackeray formally took over as the chief of the Sena — founded in 1966 to fight for the rights of Marathi people — after his father died in 2012.
He started out in the advertising field by setting up an agency called Chaurang. Specialising in aerial and wildlife photography, he has two photo books to his credit: Maharashtra Desh (2010) on the forts in the State, and Pahava Vitthal (2011) on the Pandharpur wari.