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Images: Shiv Sena pays tribute to Bal Thackeray

November 17, 2015 15:44 IST

Thousands of supporters and party workers of the Shiv Sena from all over Maharashtra visited the Shivaji Park at Dadar, central Mumbai to pay their tributes to former party supremo Bal Thackeray on his third death anniversary.

Shiv Sena chief and Bal Thackeray's son Uddhav Thackeray pays tribute to his father at Shivaji Park in Mumbai on Tuesday. Photographs: Sahil Salvi

A poster commemorating Bal Thackeray at Shivaji Park

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced that a memorial to the late Sena leader will come up at Mayor's bungalow, which is adjacent to Shivaji Park.

Yuva Sena leader Aditya Thackeray, former Maharashtra CM Manohar Joshi, senior party leader Sanjay Raut and other leaders pay their respects

Bal Thackeray played a key role in the state as well as national-level politics for decades in his distinctive style for which he became very famous. he died on November 17, 2012 and was cremated at the Shivaji Park.

Tight security arrangements were made keeping in view the large gathering

The 1927-born political cartoonist -- who was the son of journalist, writer and social reformer 'Prabhodhankar' Keshav Sitaram Thackeray -- started Marathi's first political cartoon magazine Marmik in 1960 and established the Shiv Sena in 1966.

Shiv Sena workers and supporters were present in large numbers to pay homage to their leader in various ways. Photograph: Sahil Salvi

The Shivaji Park was decorated with flowers by Sena workers on the third death anniversary of the former party patriarch.