The condition of Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray continues to remain stable, on Thursday night Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray said his father’s health was improving and stable.

“Balasaheb is responding to medical treatment,” Uddhav said on Thursday night.

Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan and Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and other prominent persons from the field of politics, cinema and industry visited the Thackeray residence ‘Matoshree’ to enquire about the Sena supremo’s health.

86-year-old Thackeray, who had been ailing since some time, turned very critical on Wednesday night. But his health is said to be stable since Thursday.

No medical bulletin on the ailing 86-year-old leader’s condition has been issued as yet, but one of the doctors attending on him said Thackeray was still being administered oxygen.

“He is being given oxygen and his condition is still not good,” the doctor, who did not want to be identified, told the news agency.

Meanwhile, security outside Thackeray’s ‘Matoshree’ bungalow in suburban Bandra has been stepped up following yesterday’s incidents in which Shiv Sainiks had damaged some media vehicles and equipment.

Large contingents of Mumbai police and Rapid Action Force have been stationed and the area has been heavily barricaded.

Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has been continuously monitoring law and order situation in the state in view of Thackeray’s condition.

“Last night, Chavan held a high-level meeting with the chief secretary and top police officers. Since this morning, he is in constant touch with family members of the Sena chief,” official sources said.

Large number of shops and business establishments in Sena strongholds like Dadar and Parel were closed as anxious party workers converged at ‘Matoshree’ to inquire about their leader’s health.

Politicians, film personalities and captains of industry made a beeline for ‘Matoshree’ as a mark of solidarity with the Thackeray family.

Union Minister Sharad Pawar, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari, party’s deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Gopinath Munde, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, actors Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt, filmmakers Madhur Bhandarkar and Ashok Pandit and industrialists Rahul Bajaj and Venugopal Dhoot visited ‘Matoshree’ to inquire about Thackeray’s condition.