The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Bal Thackeray) has moved a ‘letter of urgency’ in the Supreme Court, requesting the Apex Court to hear on an urgent basis a petition challenging the Election Commission order, which granted the party name and symbol of Shiv Sena to the Eknath Shinde group.
Filed on Saturday by the Uddhav faction, the petition accused Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde of using the Shiv Sena symbol ‘illegally’.
The two factions of Shiv Sena have remained at loggerheads since June 2022, when Shinde broke away with 15 party MLAs and formed a government in Maharashtra with support from BJP, dislodging Uddhav Thackeray as the Chief Minister.
Uddhav Thackeray had earlier called the Election Commission granting Shiv Sena party name and symbol to Shinde camp as ‘theft’ and ‘murder of democracy’.
Earlier, former Maharashtra CM Thackeray had called the EC decision a “theft” and “murder of democracy,” and approached the top court seeking a stay on the order.
On July 8, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar issued notice to 40 MLAs of Shinde-led Shiv Sena and 14 of Uddhav-led Shiv Sena (UBT), seeking their replies on the disqualification petitions pending against them.
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