Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Feb 21: The Shiv Sena fraction led by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde has been given the party’s office in Parliament, according to the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat declared that the Sena party has been given the assigned area for the Sena office in the Parliament building in response to a letter filed by the floor leader of the Shinde faction, Rahul Shewalae, according to news agency PTI.
By recognising the Shinde group as the original Shiv Sena last week and permitting it to run for office using the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol, the poll panel effectively denied Uddhav Thackeray’s claim to the organisation his father, Bal Thackeray, founded in 1966.
Shewale then wrote to the Lok Sabha Secretariat on February 18 to request that the party be given the office. Both factions have been working out of the Shiv Sena office in the Parliament Building thus far.
The news broke shortly after Eknath Shinde, the chief minister of Maharashtra, announced that the Shiv Sena would conduct its national executive meeting days after seizing control of both the party’s name and its election symbol, a bow and arrow. The strength display by Team Shinde comes at a time when Uddhav Thackeray has stepped up his rhetoric in an effort to win over party members by referencing the legacy of his father, the party’s founder Bal Thackeray.
