Aditya Uddhav Thackeray is the son of Uddhav Thackeray, leader and chairperson of the Shiv Sena, and grandson of Bal Thackeray. He is currently the head of Yuva Sena, a youth wing of Shiv Sena. Aditya established the Yuva Sena on 17 October 2010 and it has units across Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Bihar and Jammu and Kashmir. His first book of poems, 'My Thoughts in White and Black', was published in 2007. The following year, he turned lyricist and released a private album Ummeed, for which he wrote all the eight songs. He was involved in or initiated a book burning agitation against the inclusion of Rohinton Mistry's book 'Such a Long Journey' in Mumbai University's reading list in 2010. Aditya Thackeray has proposed the revival of Mumbai nightlife by allowing malls and restaurants to be open all night. Most recently, the scion of the Shiv Sena party was involved in a series of open letters with journalist Rajdeep Sardesai justifying the ink attack by the Shiv Sena on journalist Sudheendra Kulkarni.