Uddhav Thackeray camp of Shiv Sena moves SC against EC decision allocating name, symbol to Shinde faction

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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain an oral mentioning made by the Uddhav Thackeray camp to urgently list on February 21 their plea challenging the decision of the Election Commission of India allowing rival Eknath Shinde faction the Shiv Sena symbol of bow and arrow...

Singhvi, appearing for the Thackeray camp, to mention his case after listing it like the others...

The Election Commission, on February 17, recognised the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the real Shiv Sena and ordered allocation of the bow and arrow poll symbol to it...

In a 78-page order on the protracted battle for control of the organisation, the Commission allowed the Uddhav Thackeray faction to keep the flaming torch poll symbol allocated to it till the completion of the assembly bypolls in the State...

The Commission said MLAs backing Eknath Shinde got nearly 76% of votes polled in favour of the 55 winning Shiv Sena candidates in the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls..

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