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Shiv Sena Symbol Row Live: The Supreme Court will hear a plea filed by former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray challenging the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) decision to recognize the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the real Shiv Sena and allot it for the “bow and arrow” election. Challenged. Its symbol, on Wednesday. A five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court will also hear matters related to the rift in the Shiv Sena party that led to political changes in Maharashtra in June-July 2022.
Shinde’s rebellion against Thackeray’s leadership last June brought down the Thackeray-led Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra. Shinde and the rival faction led by former CM Uddhav Thackeray are embroiled in a legal battle over control of the Shiv Sena. The Thackeray camp has filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the legality of the defection of the Shinde group and the formation of a Shinde-led government with the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Meanwhile, a meeting of the party’s national executive was called on Tuesday to decide the future course of action following the Election Commission’s decision to allot Shiv Sena’s name and symbol to Eknath Shinde. At the meeting, Shinde was declared as the ‘Mukhya Neta’ (main leader) of the Shiv Sena and was given all decision-making powers relating to the party.
This was the first national executive meeting that was held without a single Thackeray family member and was attended by top leaders of the Eknath Shinde camp.
The Shinde faction had dropped the designation of “party chief”, which they believed belonged to Shiv Sena supremo the late Balasaheb Thackeray.
The National Executive also unanimously passed resolutions like giving Bharat Ratna to VD Savarkar, giving status of elite language to Marathi language, giving 80 per cent jobs in the state, changing the name of Churchgate Railway. Station in memory of Chintaman Rao Deshmukh, providing coaching to Marathi students for MPSC and UPSC exams etc.
It resolved to form a disciplinary committee, to be headed by state port development minister Dada Bhuse; Excise Minister Shambhuraj Desai and Sanjay More will be its other members. The committee will have the power to take action against party leaders who “act against the party line”.
Besides this, the camp led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday also gained control of the party’s parliamentary office in Delhi. The move came a day after the Shinde camp took control of the Shiv Sena office in the Maharashtra legislative building.
However, Maharashtra cabinet minister Deepak Kesarkar has said that the Eknath Shinde faction is not interested in taking over the Shiv Sena building in Mumbai or any other property belonging to the rival camp led by former CM Uddhav Thackeray, which he claimed that he was trying to gain sympathy. After the decision of the Election Commission on this issue
Kesarkar, a spokesperson for the Shiv Sena faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, said his outfit was also not interested in claiming party funds after the Election Commission recognized his group as the real Shiv Sena.
They said Shinde has already made it clear that his faction is not interested in laying claim to the Shiv Sena Bhavan, the party headquarters at Dadar in central Mumbai, or any property belonging to the Thackeray group, and that the school of thought of the Shiv Sena founder Developed by Late Bal Thackeray was his real asset.
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