Editing Bal Thackeray (section)

===Reservations===
Thackeray firmly opposed [[Reservation in India|caste based reservation]] and said, "There are only two castes in the world, the rich are rich and the poor is poor, make the poor rich but don't make the rich poor. Besides these two castes I don't believe in any other casteism."

The [[Bhartiya Janata Party]] (BJP) supported caste-based reservations based on the Mandal commission. Thackarey, despite being warned that opposition to the reservations would be politically suicidal for the Shiv Sena party, opposed the BJP over this issue and said he would initiate proceedings against the BJP if the BJP supported caste-based reservations. This also led to his conflict with [[Chhagan Bhujbal]], an [[Other Backward Class|OBC]], who later left the Shiv Sena.<ref>{{cite book |title=Bal Thackeray and the rise of Shiv Sena |publisher=Roli Books |author=Vaibhav Purandare |year=2013 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JS1hBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT178 |page=178 |isbn=9788174369918}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-images-bal-thackeray-s-portraits-from-the-past/20121117.htm |title=Bal Thackeray on casteism |publisher=rediff news |year=2012 |access-date=24 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190124152351/https://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-images-bal-thackeray-s-portraits-from-the-past/20121117.htm |archive-date=24 January 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>