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Maharashtra Assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar on Wednesday while announcing his decision on Shiv Sena MLA disqualification case, said that the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led faction is the real Shiv Sena and Uddhav Thackeray had no power to remove Eknath Shinde from the post of legislature party leader...
Reading out his ruling on disqualification petitions filed by Shinde-led Sena and the rival faction led by Uddhav Thackeray against each other's MLAs, Narwekar also said that Sunil Prabhu of the Sena (UBT) ceased to be the whip from June 21, 2022...
"Shinde faction was the real Shiv Sena political party when rival factions emerged on June 21, 2022 and had an overwhelming majority of 37 out of 55 MLAs," ruled speaker...
This leadership structure can not be taken as the yardstick to determine which faction is a real Shiv Sena political party" the speaker said.. "In view of the evidence and records before me, prima facie indicates that no elections were held in the year 2013, as well as in the year 2018..
Thus, given the above conclusions, I find that the leadership structure of Shiv reflected in the letter dated 27th February 2018 available on the website of the ECI is the relevant leadership structure which has to be taken into account for the purpose of determining which faction is the real political party," Narwekar said.. Earlier, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said that Narwekar should give the verdict on merit..
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