Mumbai, A woman office-bearer of the Shiv Sena from Maharashtra’s Akola district has achieved the distinction of earning a PhD for her research on the humanitarian work of the undivided Shiv Sena in the first 50 years since its foundation in 1966.
Late Bal Thackeray established the Shiv Sena on June 19, 1966, primarily to champion the cause of rights of the “sons of the soil” . Six years prior to that, Thackeray had started ‘Marmik’, a Marathi satirical and political cartoon weekly, in 1960.
However, 56 years after its foundation, the party split in June 2022 as party leader Eknath Shinde rebelled against the leadership of party president and then Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray.
Now, the ruling Shiv Sena is led by Shinde, while Thackeray heads the opposition Sena .
Sena Akola district women’s organiser Sarita Vijay Wakode said she submitted her doctoral thesis titled “A Historical Study of the Humanitarian Work of Shiv Sena: Special Reference to the Mumbai Division ” to Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, which awarded her a PhD degree on May 26.
Wakode said she spent nearly six years working on the research and prepared a 450-page thesis.
Talking to PTI, she said she wanted to do a PhD and earn the title of a doctor.
In 2014, she completed a Master’s in history followed by an MA in Marathi before obtaining her B.Ed degree. She joined the Shiv Sena in 2016 and applied for a PhD in 2017. Her thesis on the Sena’s role and contribution in building Maharashtra was cleared in 2020.
“My focus has been to study the Shiv Sena’s 80 per cent social service and 20 per cent politics approach. My thesis was divided into Shiv Sena’s humanitarian, cultural and women-centric work. The party’s contribution in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement and preserving the Marathi ‘asmita’ is noteworthy,” Wakode said.
“My goal is to educate political workers about Shiv Sena’s core ideology of having a humane approach in politics and how love, affection, sacrifice and hard work will help build the state and the country,” she added.
Earlier, former Maharashtra chief minister and former Lok Sabha speaker late Manohar Joshi secured a PhD from the University of Mumbai for his research on regional political parties in India, with special reference to the Shiv Sena. He completed the research at the age of 72, senior journalist Yogesh Trivedi said.
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