Indian Hindu leader Bal Thacker dies

INDIAN firebrand nationalist politician Bal Thackeray, who founded the right-wing Hindu party Shiv Sena, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest.

Thackeray, 86, has "breathed his last", his physician Jalil Parkar told a huge crowd assembled outside the veteran politician's house in India's financial hub of Mumbai.

Thackeray is one of the best known and most controversial figures in the western state of Maharashtra and its capital, which his party renamed from Bombay to Mumbai.

Shiv Sena's main goals have been keep people who are not from Maharashtra out of the state and stem the spread of Islam and western values.

Thackeray's Sena held power in Mumbai from 1995 to 2000.

Sena became synonymous with deadly communal violence during its campaign to protect local Marathi-speaking people from migrant workers.

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