{{short description|Indian journalist}}{{EngvarB|date=March 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}{{Infobox officeholder | name = Rashmi Thackeray | image = Uddhav Thackeray, Rashmi Thackeray at Esha Deol's wedding reception 07 (cropped).jpg | image_size = | birth_name = Rashmi Patankar | birth_date = 29.02.1963 | birth_place = Dabhol, Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra, India | office = Spouse of Chief Minister of Maharashtra | term_start = 28 November 2019 | term_end = 29 June 2022 | 1blankname = Chief Minister | 1namedata = Uddhav Thackeray | predecessor = Amruta Fadnavis | successor = Lata Shinde | office1 = Editor-in-chief of ''Saamana''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/rashmi-thackeray-takes-over-as-saamana-editor/articleshow/74431953.cms | title=Rashmi Thackeray takes over as Saamana editor | work=Mumbai Mirror | author=Chaitanya Marpakwar | date=2 March 2020 | accessdate=16 March 2020}}</ref> and ''Marmik''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.news18.com/news/politics/after-saamana-maharashtra-cms-wife-rashmi-thackeray-named-editor-of-marmik-too-2525843.html | title=After Saamana, Maharashtra CM's Wife Rashmi Thackeray Named Editor of Marmik Too | publisher=News18 | date=4 March 2020 | accessdate=16 March 2020}}</ref> | term_start1 = 2020 | predecessor1 = Uddhav Thackeray | spouse = {{marriage|Uddhav Thackeray|1989}} | children = 2, including Aaditya Thackeray | parents = | relatives = ''See Thackeray Family'' | alma_mater = Vinayak Ganesh Vaze Autonomous College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Mulund East | education = B. Com. | occupation = Journalist }}
'''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.
==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.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/rashmi-thackeray-behind-uddhav-thackerays-success-a-woman-with-dignity/articleshow/72268497.cms | title=Rashmi Thackeray: Behind Uddhav Thackeray's success a woman | work=The Times of India | date=28 November 2019 | accessdate=16 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india-today-insight/story/the-rise-and-rise-of-rashmi-thackeray-1652561-2020-03-05 | title=The rise and rise of Rashmi Thackeray | work=India Today | author=Kiran Tare | date=5 March 2020 | accessdate=16 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/rashmi-thackeray-shiv-sena-aaditya-thackeray-maharashtra-elections-uddhav-thackeray-6304384/ | title=Rashmi Thackeray: Mrs Surefire | work=The Indian Express | author=Vishwas Waghmode | date=8 March 2020 | accessdate=16 March 2020}}</ref> The couple have two sons, Aditya (Former Cabinet Minister of Tourism and Environment Government of Maharashtra) and Tejas.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Uddhav-May-Shift-to-New-House-After-LS-Elections/2014/04/09/article2157222.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426202220/http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Uddhav-May-Shift-to-New-House-After-LS-Elections/2014/04/09/article2157222.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 April 2014 | title=Uddhav May Shift to New House After LS Elections | newspaper=Indian Express |place=Mumbai | date=9 April 2014 | accessdate=25 April 2014}}</ref>
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