The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray, or UBT) faction on Monday (Jan 15) approached the Supreme Court to anguish the Maharashtra Speaker’s resolution to acknowledge the Eknath Shinde, who is now the manager minister, crew as the actual Shiv Sena.
The crew is also contesting the resolution to refuse to disqualify the contributors of the Shinde faction for defection as per the tenth agenda of the Constitution.
After the split in June 2022, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar declared the Sena bloc led by Shinde as the “real political occasion”.
The speaker also rejected the Thackeray faction’s ask to disqualify 16 MLAs from the ruling camp, including Shinde.
Narwekar had acknowledged no occasion leadership can pronounce provisions of the tenth Agenda of the Constitution (anti-defection regulation) to quell dissent or indiscipline interior a occasion.
He had extra acknowledged that the Shinde crew had the make stronger of 37 out of the total 54 Sena MLAs when the occasion split in June 2022.
UBT used to be formed in 2022 under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray with the Election Commission (EC) assigning it a brand unique impress that celebrated it from the main Shiv Sena.
It used to be one among two independent factions, the diverse being the Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena, led by Shinde. The total saga used to be phase of the 2022 Maharashtra political crisis until the EC licensed the phase led by Shinde as the official Shiv Sena structure in February 2023. The EC had given the ‘Shiv Sena’ identify and ‘bow and arrow’ symbol to the Shinde-led faction.
Narwekar had acknowledged in his inform on the disqualification petitions filed by the Shinde-led Sena and the rival Thackeray faction towards every different’s MLAs that Sunil Prabhu of the Sena (UBT) ceased to be the whip from June 21, 2022 (when the occasion split) and legislator Bharat Gogawale of the Shinde crew used to be now the permitted whip.
Narwekar had acknowledged, “The total petitions seeking disqualification of MLAs are rejected. No MLA is being disqualified.”
(With inputs from agencies)
