New Delhi: Days after the Election Commission (EC) declared that the get together faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is the true Shiv Sena and allotted it the ‘bow and arrow’ image, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday (February 27, 2023) mentioned he not had belief within the apex ballot physique. The former Maharashtra CM additionally mentioned that the EC needs to be referred to as “Election Chuna Lagao Aayog”.
“The Election Commission is bogus. It should be called the ‘Election Chuna Lagao Aayog’. We have lost trust in it,” Thackeray mentioned at a celebration occasion on the event of Marathi Language Day.
आज बिर्ला मातोश्री सभागृह,मुंबई येथे स्थानीय लोकाधिकार समिती महासंघाच्या सुवर्णमहोत्सवी वर्षानिमित्त मराठी भाषा गौरव दिनी आयोजित ‘मराठी भाषा दिवस’ कार्यक्रम संपन्न झाला. या कार्यक्रमात पक्षप्रमुख श्री. उद्धवसाहेब ठाकरे यांनी उपस्थितांशी संवाद साधला. pic.twitter.com/ySniMN0TLl
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The Shiv Sena (UBT) chief acknowledged that the ballot physique shouldn’t have given its determination on the get together identify and image when hearings related to it had been underway within the Supreme Court.
He mentioned the EC had given an emblem every to Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party factions headed by get together founder late Ram Vilas Paswan’s son Chirag and Paswan’s brother Pashupati Kumar Paras in a dispute much like the one within the Shiv Sena.
However, each factions are quiet over it as they’re with the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), Thackeray added.
Eknath Shinde and his supporters are ‘creepers’: Uddhav Thackeray
Uddhav Thackeray additionally attacked Eknath Shinde and his supporters and mentioned that they had been “creepers” who had began considering of themselves because the host tree.
Those who do not have values resort to stealing, Thackeray mentioned in an obvious dig on the Shinde group.
Shinde had rebelled towards Thackeray in June final 12 months, which break up the Shiv Sena and introduced down the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities, which additionally comprised Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief and Lok Sabha MP Rajan Vichare on Monday mentioned that functionaries of the Eknath Shinde-led faction had usurped a ‘shakha’ (native workplace) that had been for operating in Thane for a number of years when the get together was undivided.
Despite an endeavor within the Supreme Court and public statements by Chief Minister Shinde that he or his supporters aren’t eager to put declare on Sena properties, ‘shakhas’ had been being grabbed, Vichare alleged.
The Lokmanya Nagar ‘shakha’ has been taken over by Shinde’s supporters by drive, he claimed.
Since the EC — earlier this month — recognised the Shinde group as the true Shiv Sena, there was hypothesis over the possession of the undivided get together’s properties, together with the native places of work the place the cadre assemble by way of the day.