Shiv Sena row: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday reacted to the choice taken by the Election Commission and claimed the constitutional physique has established the distinction between fact and lie by recognising the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the ‘actual’ Shiv Sena.
Interestingly, on Friday, in an enormous blow to former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, the EC allotted the identify ‘Shiv Sena’ and its ballot image ‘bow and arrow’ to the group led by CM Eknath Shinde.
This is for the primary time that the Thackeray household has misplaced management of the get together that was based in 1966 by Balasaheb Thackeray on the rules of justice for the sons of the soil.
Meanwhile, whereas addressing an occasion in Pune, he mentioned, “The Election Commission established the difference between truth and lie yesterday. The formula of ‘Satyameva Jayate’ became significant yesterday.”
Thackeray calls CM Shinde “a thief”
Notably, earlier in the present day, Thackeray held a gathering along with his get together leaders the place he known as Shinde a “thief” who allegedly stole his get together image. During the assembly, Thackeray, following the dramatic setback, asserted that the “game has now begun” and threatened the incumbent authorities to tug their socks.
The assembly of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leaders, deputy leaders, elected representatives and spokespersons attended the assembly at Thackeray’s residence ‘Matoshree’ in suburban Bandra within the afternoon, Thackeray’s aide mentioned.
“Judges will be given post-retirement benefits”
In a scathing assault on the Election Commission and the decide who cleared a ‘victory’ for Shinde, Thackeray alleged that each EC and the decide gave a call in favour of the incumbent authorities in trade for post-retirement advantages. “The judge has given the decision in favour of Shinde in order to become governor of any state, like other judges,” mentioned Thackeray.
He declared the state of affairs a victory for Shiv Sena as the Bhartiya Janata Party has to make use of their get together identify and image to evangelise to the frequent folks. He ascertained that the BJP would attempt to get their “Mashal logo”.
