Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Oct 9: The Shiv Sena party name and the bow and arrow emblem will not be used by either the Uddhav Thackeray or the Eknath Shinde camps until the Election Commission of India (ECI) determines which of the two competing factions is truly entitled to use the name and symbol.
The prohibition will be in effect for the State’s next byelections.
Anup Chandra Pandey and Rajiv Kumar, the chief election commissioner, approved the decision.
The judgement stipulated that both factions might select names of their choosing in the interim, including ones that were connected to their parent party, Shivsena.
“Both the groups shall also be allotted such different symbols as they may choose from the list of free symbols notified by the Election Commission for the purposes of the current bye-elections,” it further said.
The decision about which camp, the Thackeray camp or the Shinde camp is the true Shiv Sena was made in response to a petition from the Shinde group.
This came about after Uddhav Thackeray’s cabinet was overthrown as a result of the Shinde and the majority of Shiv Sena MLAs withdrawing their support for him.
With the help of the BJP, Shinde was then sworn in as the new chief executive. For the Shinde faction, attorneys Chirag Shah, Utsav Trivedi, Himanshu Sachdeva, and Manini Roy appeared.
Tanvi Anand, Devyani Gupta, and Vivek Singh, attorneys, appeared on behalf of the Thackeray group.
