Edited By: Pathikrit Sen Gupta
Final Up to date: February 18, 2023, 00:55 IST
Former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray. (File photograph: PTI)
Consultants say after shedding the celebration identify and image, Uddhav Thackeray might method the Supreme Court docket, by Monday, in opposition to the EC order and attempt to get a keep on it until the time the SC hears the matter
Although the Election Fee’s choice on Friday to endorse Eknath Shinde’s declare on the Shiv Sena identify and bow-and-arrow image got here as an enormous setback for Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray celebration leaders and employees, former chief minister of Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray is decided to battle this battle until they win.
The ballot panel stated Shinde, who turned chief minister after a revolt within the Shiv Sena, was supported by MLAs with 76 per cent of the celebration’s profitable votes within the 2019 Maharashtra meeting polls.
Uddhav Thackeray has referred to as the EC order “unlucky and never in favour of democracy”. He has requested his cadres not to surrender as “the celebration will battle this battle until the top with the traitors”. In a press convention, he stated, “Quickly we will likely be approaching the Supreme Court docket to problem the choice of the Election Fee.”
Consultants say after shedding the celebration identify and image, Uddhav Thackeray might method the Supreme Court docket, by Monday, in opposition to the EC order and attempt to get a keep on it until the time the SC hears the matter.
The Uddhav camp might ask the highest courtroom to first hear the disqualification plea in opposition to Shinde group MLAs.
If the SC provides an order in opposition to Uddhav Thackeray, then he might must method the Election Fee with a brand new identify of the celebration and choices of a logo from a verified record, specialists say.
Eknath Shinde, who has acquired the Shiv Sena identify and image, is planning to conduct the celebration’s inner elections. As on January 23, Uddhav’s time period as Shiv Sena president had ended. The Election Fee had not given a nod to Uddhav Thackeray to conduct the interior elections, so he was persevering with as celebration president. However as Shinde has acquired the numbers with him, he might attempt to develop into celebration president and take management of the Shiv Sena organisation, sources say.
Following the Election Fee’s order, there’s a buzz in Maharashtra’s political corridors that municipal polls could also be introduced quickly, together with for the Mumbai company BMC.
Senior political analyst Sanjay Jog stated, “Uddhav has given a name to his celebration employees that they must battle this battle until the top as a result of he himself had stated within the press convention that there’s a likelihood that he might lose the present identify of the celebration and image ‘flaming torch’ allotted by EC after the break up. In such a situation, Uddhav has to method the Election Fee with a brand new identify for his celebration and image, and he has to face elections.”
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