New Delhi: The Election Rate has asked the rival factions of the Shiv Sena, led by Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde, to submit paperwork by August 8 in enhance of their claims on the election image of the political outfit.
Election Rate sources said the two aspects were asked to submit paperwork, along with letters of enhance from the legislative and organisational wings of the event and the written statements of the rival factions.
They said the requirement were made per the Paragraph 15 of the Election Symbols (Reservation and Portion) Impart, 1968.
Earlier this week, the Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena had written to the Rate looking for allocation of the event’s ‘bow and arrow’ election image to it, citing the recognition granted to them in the Lok Sabha and the Maharashtra Assembly.
The Shiv Sena split closing month when more than two-thirds of the event’s MLAs withdrew their enhance from the Maharashtra government led by Uddhav Thackeray, throwing their lot with Shinde.
Shinde used to be sworn in as Maharashtra Chief Minister on June 30 with enhance of the BJP.
On Tuesday closing, as a minimum 12 of the 18 Shiv Sena members in the Lok Sabha expressed no self perception’ in ground leader Vinayak Raut and declared Rahul Shewale as their ground leader.
Lok Sabha Speaker recognised Shewale as the leader the identical day.
To accomplish determined neither faction is deprived of recordsdata, the ballotpanel has also directed alternate of paperwork submitted by the two groups over the past two days.
That is the preliminary step, checking might maybe presumably maybe additionally attain famous later, defined a former EC legit.
The claim over the stamp assumes significance as the Supreme Court docket had on Wednesday directed the Maharashtra Impart Election Rate to notify elections to local bodies within two weeks.
Elections are due in different civic bodies in Maharashtra, along with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC), which would show which Sena faction gets the typical enhance.
Earlier, the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena had written to the EC, asking for it to hear its views earlier than making any decision on representations for claims over the event identify and its ballotimage.
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