was successful in uniting all Maharashtrians irrespective of caste under the common "Marathi umbrella". The agenda of preferential treatment for the "sons of the soil" that is Maharashtrians brought them all together. Voter base Shiv Sena's strength in the late 1980s and early '90s mainly came from the support of the Maratha caste - which it drew away from the Congress. Citing the large percentage of MLAs elected from Shiv Sena belonging to the Maratha caste, Vora from the University of Pune concludes that the Shiv Sena has been emerging as a "Maratha Party". Headquarter Shivsena Bhavan () is a building which houses the central office of the Shiv Sena in Mumbai. It is located on Ram Ganesh Gadkari Chowk and Shivaji Park in Dadar. It was inaugurated on 19 June 1977. The refurbished Sena Bhavan was inaugurated on 27 July 2006. It has a Copper Statue of Shivaji Maharaj and a large Poster of Balasaheb Thackeray. Matoshri, the house of Uddhav is an important building in this party. Many high-profile meeting are usually held in it. It worked as a command and control centre of the party in Bal –Uddhava Thackeray's regime. In the 1993 Bombay bombings, a group of terrorists attacked the building as well as a number of other major buildings in the city. List of Chief Ministers Following is the list of the Chief Ministers of Maharashtra from Shiv Sena. List of Union Ministers Manohar Joshi: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, 13th Speaker of the Lok Sabha Anandrao Vithoba Adsul: Ministry of State, Finance and Company Affairs Suresh Prabhu :Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Minister of Power Arvind Sawant: Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Electoral performance Lok Sabha elections Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha elections Activities and criticism The Sena says it has played a central role in the emancipation of 500,000 slum dwellers in the Dharavi area of Mumbai, the largest slum in Asia. However, the policy of giving free houses to slum dwellers has been controversial since it was introduced by the then Shiv Sena-BJP government. In the 1970s, Shiv Sena was opposed to the Namantar Andolan, a Dalit-led movement to change the name of Marathwada University in Aurangabad to "Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar University", and supported views of conservative Marathas. In 1996, Shiv Sena organised the first