Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Oct 10: The supporters of the Shiv Sena factions led by Eknath Shinde and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday submitted their preferred party names and symbols to the Indian Election Commission, according to the news agency ANI.
This comes after the commission banned both organisations run by from using the party name for the upcoming Andheri (East) bypoll and frozen the Shiv Sena’s “bow and arrow” election symbol.
They were required to submit three distinct name suggestions as well as as many free symbols by Monday in order to be assigned to their appropriate groups by the poll body.
In preparation for the November 3 Andheri (East) bypoll, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena group submitted to the Election Commission three symbols for the party: a trident, a burning flame, and a rising Sun.
The Shinde faction’s recommendations have not yet been made public.
Former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray previously stated in a virtual address that his camp has submitted three names to the EC and anticipates that it would choose one of them: “Shiv Sena Balasaheb Thackeray, Shiv Sena Balasaheb Prabodhankar Thackeray, and Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray.”
Rujuta Latke, the widow of late Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh Latke, and Murji Patel, a corporator in the Mumbai civic body, are anticipated to face off in a straight battle in the byelection for the Andheri East Assembly seat in suburban Mumbai.
