Samata Celebration Meets Eknath Shinde After Crew Uddhav Will get Its 'Mashaal' Ballot Image
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Samata Celebration sought assist in getting again its 'mashaal' ballot image from Uddhav Thackeray
A delegation of Samata Celebration from Bihar met Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and sought his assist in getting again its 'mashaal' (flaming torch) election image that has been allotted to the Shiv Sena faction led by Uddhav Thackeray.
The delegation, led by the celebration president Uday Mandal, met Mr Shinde on the latter's workplace in Thane on Tuesday night.
This info was shared by Eknath Shinde's city-based workplace by way of a launch.
The assembly comes days after the Election Fee (EC) recognised the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the actual Shiv Sena, and allotted the 'bow and arrow' image to it. It additionally dominated that the 'flaming torch' image it had allotted to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena group final yr, will stay with it until the conclusion of the Kasba Peth and Chinchwad Meeting bypolls in Pune district scheduled on February 26.
The delegation informed Shinde that Samata Celebration was an outdated political outfit from Bihar and "mashaal" (flaming torch) was its election image. Nonetheless after the change in energy in Maharashtra, the EC allotted it to the Shiv Sena faction led by Uddhav Thackeray, the discharge mentioned.
The delegation additionally informed Shinde that they might problem the Election Fee's choice within the Supreme Courtroom to get again their image, it added.
The delegation sought Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's assist in getting again the Samata Celebration's election image the way in which his faction obtained the 'bow and arrow' image.
The Samata Celebration - shaped in 1994 by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the late chief George Fernandes - had earlier each complained to the Election Fee in opposition to the allotment of the image of Thackeray's celebration in October final yr and moved the Delhi Excessive Courtroom in opposition to it, however the excessive courtroom had dismissed the case claiming it had no proper over deciding celebration symbols.
The Samata Celebration had been derecognised by the Election Fee in 2004.
Whereas allotting the flaming torch image to the Thackeray faction final yr, the ballot panel had mentioned the image was not within the listing of free symbols and was an "erstwhile reserved image" of the now derecognised Samata Celebration nevertheless it has determined to allot the identical on a request to declare it a free image.
In the meantime, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief and Thane MP Rajan Vichare has submitted a letter to metropolis Police Commissioner Jai Jeet Singh, urging him to thwart any makes an attempt by the Shinde group to usurp the Shiv Sena 'shakhas' (native celebration places of work) within the metropolis.
"Because the beginning of Shiv Sena 56 years again, a number of Shakas have been arrange within the metropolis. The possession of a few of them are with the Sena (UBT) and a few are personal premises and within the custody of the celebration. The Shinde group grabbed a number of the shakhas by way of power and a few others are being grabbed utilizing muscle energy," he alleged.
So as to keep away from a regulation and order scenario, the police equipment mustn't encourage the Shinde group and provides it a warning. If any regulation and order scenario arises, will probably be the only duty of the Shinde group and the police, Mr Vichare added within the letter.
On Tuesday, Maharashtra cupboard minister Deepak Kesarkar, who's the spokesperson of the Shinde faction, mentioned his group was not thinking about taking up the Shiv Sena Bhavan in Mumbai or some other property linked to the rival camp headed by Uddhav Thackeray.
(Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)
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