Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 17 (ANI): After Election Commmission’s determination favouring his faction, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday up to date his show image on Twitter with Shiv Sena’s ‘bow and arrow’ image as the image.
This comes after the Election Fee on Friday ordered that the get together identify “Shiv Sena” and the get together image “bow and arrow” shall be retained by the Eknath Shinde faction.
“It’s the victory of the ideologies of Balasaheb and Anand Dighe, of our staff, MPs, MLAs, public representatives and lakhs of Shiv Sainiks. It’s victory of democracy. This nation runs on the Structure drafted by Babasaheb Ambedkar. We fashioned our authorities on the idea of that Structure. The EC order that got here at the moment is on the idea of advantage. I categorical my gratitude to the Election Fee,” Shinde advised reporters right here.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis congratulated Shinde on retaining the get together image and mentioned his faction is the true “Shiv Sena” that follows the ideas of Balasaheb Thackeray.
“The Shiv Sena that walks on ideologies of Balasaheb Thackeray – Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena has grow to be the unique Shiv Sena. My greetings to him. We have been assured from day 1 as a result of in the event you have a look at EC’s earlier orders on completely different events, they have been related selections,” Fadnavis mentioned.
In the meantime, former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray mentioned his faction – Shiv Sena (UBT) would transfer to the Supreme court docket in opposition to the Election Fee’s determination.
“We’ll absolutely go to the Supreme Courtroom in opposition to this EC order. We’re positive that the SC will put aside this order and can disqualify the 16 MLAs,” Thackeray mentioned.
“They need to first perceive Balasaheb. They’ve come to know that ‘Modi’ identify doesn’t work in Maharashtra in order that they must put Balasaheb’s masks on their face for their very own profit. I had mentioned that ECI mustn’t give a call earlier than the SC verdict. If the get together’s existence is set primarily based on the variety of MLAs and MPs, any capitalist can buy MLA, MP and grow to be CM,” he added.
The Election Fee of India on Friday introduced that the get together identify “Shiv Sena” and the image “Bow and Arrow” shall be retained by the Eknath Shinde faction.
Notably, each factions of Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray) have been combating for the bow and arrow image of the get together since Shinde (current Maharashtra Chief Minister) revolted in opposition to Thackeray final yr.
The Fee noticed that the present structure of the Shiv Sena get together is undemocratic. It has been mutilated to undemocratically appoint folks from a coterie as workplace bearers with none election in any respect. Such get together buildings fail to encourage confidence.
In a landmark determination with far-reaching implications on political events and their conduct, ECI suggested all political events to mirror democratic ethos and ideas of internal get together democracy and commonly disclose on their respective web sites elements of their internal get together functioning, reminiscent of organisational particulars, holding of elections, the copy of Structure and checklist of workplace bearers.
“The structure of political events ought to offer free of charge, truthful and clear elections to the posts of workplace bearers and an additional free and truthful process for the decision of inside disputes. These procedures should be tough to amend and ought to be amendable solely after making certain bigger help of the organisational members for a similar,” the ECI mentioned.
The ECI noticed that the undemocratic norms of the unique Structure of Shiv Sena, which was not accepted by the Fee in 1999 have been introduced again in a surreptitious method additional making the get together akin to a fiefdom.
The Rashtriya Karyakarini is a physique which is ‘elected’ by a largely ‘appointed’ Pratinidhi Sabha. The Fee conveyed to
Shiv Sena within the yr 1999 on the draft amendments when Bala Saheb was made chief of Sena for all times: “To place in a nutshell, the get together Structure envisages the President nominating the Electoral School that’s to elect him. Due to this fact, any reliance on the ‘”Take a look at of Get together Structure”‘ for figuring out the current dispute case shall be undemocratic and catalytic in spreading such practices throughout events.
Final month, each the Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and former CM Uddhav Thackeray-led factions of the Shiv Sena submitted their written statements in help of their claims of management over the get together identify and image to the Election Fee.
The ECI had frozen the bow and arrow image of the Shiv Sena and had allotted the ‘Two Swords and Protect image’ to the Eknath Shinde faction of Shiv Sena and the ‘flaming torch’ (mashaal) election image was allotted to the Uddhav Thackeray faction for the bypoll in Andheri East meeting constituency in November final yr.
In November final yr, Uddhav Thackeray had moved a writ plea within the Delhi Excessive Courtroom in opposition to the ECI determination to freeze Election Image of Bow and Arrow. Nevertheless, the plea was dismissed by the court docket.
Notably, EC handed the interim order saying in Andheri East bypolls, neither of the 2 teams shall be permitted to make use of the image “bow and arrow”, reserved for “Shiv Sena”. (ANI)
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