Uddhav Thackeray vs Eknath Shinde to play out in Supreme Court today

A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices Krishna Murari and PS Narasimha will hear the plea at 3.30 pm on Wednesday.

The political tussle in Maharashtra will be heard on Wednesday when the Supreme Court hears a plea by the Uddhav Thackeray faction challenging the Election Commission's order recognizing Eknath Shinde's camp as the real Shiv Sena and giving it a party name and "bow". and an arrow symbol”.

A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices Krishna Murari and PS Narasimha will hear the plea at 3.30 pm on Wednesday. “If the EC order does not stay, they will take over the token and the bank accounts. Please bring it up before the constitution bench,” added Sibal. The Supreme Court said it had to go through the case files and posted the matter for hearing on Wednesday at 3.30 pm.

On Tuesday, it was decided that Chief Minister Eknath Shinde would remain the "main leader" of the Shiv Sena at the party's first national executive meeting after the split. Other resolutions included a demand for a posthumous Bharat Ratna for freedom fighter and Hindutva ideologue Vinayaka Damodar Savarkar. Another resolution passed at the meeting demanded the inclusion of Sambhaji Maharaj, Veermata Jijabai and Ahilyabai Holkar in the list of "national personalities".

Interestingly, Shinde said on Monday that after the Election Commission's decision on the real Shiv Sena, there would be no claim on the party's assets as "we are heirs to Balasaheb Thackeray's ideology and have no temptations". "Those who were tempted by wealth and wealth made a wrong move in 2019," he said in an apparent reference to Uddhav breaking the Shiv Sena's alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party after the assembly poll results over the sharing of the chief ministerial post. “The Election Commission has taken a decision on Shiv Sena's name and bow and arrow symbol as per rules and the office in the 'vidhimandal' (legislators complex) is Shiv Sena. As far as assets are concerned, we have no temptations,” Shinde said on Monday.

In its order last week, the EC said that the result of the majority test in the legislative wing clearly reflected the qualitative superiority of the majority test in favor of the Shiv Sena Shinde faction and ordered that the party name and symbol be retained by the Shinde faction.

The EC has allowed the Thackeray faction to retain the 'burning torch' symbol allotted to it till the completion of the Maharashtra assembly by-elections. In a detailed order, the EC order stated that MLAs supporting Shinde got nearly 76 percent of the votes in favor of the 55 winning candidates of the Shiv Sena in the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls and MLAs of the Thackeray faction got 23.5 percent of the votes in favor. winning Shiv Sena candidates.