Rashmi Thackeray

Rashmi Thackeray (née Patankar) is an Indian journalist and the editor-in-chief of Saamana and Marmik. She is the spouse of Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray and the mother of Aaditya Thackeray.

Rashmi Thackeray
Spouse of Chief Minister of Maharashtra
In office 28 November 2019 – 29 June 2022
Chief Minister	Uddhav Thackeray
Preceded by	Amruta Fadnavis
Succeeded by	Lata Shinde
Editor-in-chief of Saamana[1] and Marmik[2]
Incumbent
Assumed office 2020
Preceded by	Uddhav Thackeray
Personal details
Born	Rashmi Patankar Dabhol, Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra, India
Spouse	Uddhav Thackeray ​ (m. 1989)​
Children	2, including Aaditya Thackeray
Relatives	See Thackeray Family
Education	B. Com.
Alma mater	Vinayak Ganesh Vaze Autonomous College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Mulund East
Occupation	Journalist

Early life and family

The daughter of businessman Madhav Patankar of Dombivli, she attended V G Vaze College in Mulund for her Bachelor of Commerce degree. She joined the Life Insurance Corporation of India as a contract employee in 1987. A friend of Raj Thackeray's sister, Jaywanti, she met Uddhav Thackeray. The couple got married in 1989.^[3][4][5] The couple have two sons, Aditya (Former Cabinet Minister of Tourism and Environment Government of Maharashtra) and Tejas.^[6]