SHIV SENA
SHIV SENA Shiv Sena (Army of Shivaji) is a right-wing Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray. Originally emerging from nativist movements in Bombay (present-day Mumbai), the party agitates for preferential treatment for the Marathi people over migrants from other parts of India. Its election symbol for Maharashtra is bow and arrow with the name of the party in Marathi at the bottom. Due to factionalism, the Election Commission of India has frozen the symbol since 2022.