Before filing his nomination documents, Aaditya prayed at his family home’ Matoshri’ in Bandra in front of a portrait of his grandpa and Sena founding patriarch the late Bal Thackeray.
In the meantime, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and a member of Sena’s governing party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, also received a phone call of best wishes.
His beaming parents Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray and Mom Rashmi welcomed him at the election office, At Thursday’s roadshow, Sena employees held posters with pictures of Aaditya, his dad Uddhav and late grandpa, walking their way through the Worli region comprising some of South Central Mumbai’s poshest and poorest towns.