RATNAGIRI: India attained independence after the sacrifices of freedom fighters, and never by sprinkling ‘Gomutra’ (cow urine), former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray mentioned on Sunday. Addressing a public assembly, right here in Ratnagiri, Uddhav Thackeray mentioned, “Did our country attain independence by sprinkling ‘gomutra’ (cow urine)? Did this happen that cow urine was sprinkled and we got freedom? This was not the case, freedom fighters sacrificed their lives then we got independence.”
He additionally hit out on the Election Commission of India over the choice of allotting `Shiv Sena` identify and `Bow and Arrow` image to the Shinde faction. “The Election Commission has taken away Shiv Sena`s name and symbol, but it can`t take away the party from us. Tell the EC that if they don`t have cataract then come and see who is the real Shiv Sena. The party Shiv Sena was not founded by the father of the EC, it was founded by my father,” he mentioned.
He accused the Shinde faction of “stealing” the `Bow and Arrow` image. “People should keep one thing in mind those who have stolen our `Bow-and-Arrow` and then come to seek votes are thieves. You bring the `Bow and Arrow`, I will bring the torch. I will accept whatever the public decides. It is not the EC that will decide whether I want it or not,” he mentioned. He additional added saying, “Kapil Sibal is fighting our case and he is worried for us. While arguing in the Supreme Court, he said that he is not worried about winning or losing the case, instead, he is worried about whether Democracy and Constitution will survive in the country or not.”
Uddhav Thackeray additionally attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party, accusing it of “stealing” figures like Subhash Chandra Bose, Sardar Patel and Bala Saheb Thackeray.
“Sardar Patel banned RSS, but they (BJP) stole the name of Sardar Patel. Similarly, they stole Subhash Chandra Bose and did the same with Bala Saheb Thackeray. I challenge them to ask for votes in PM Modi`s name and not in the name of Shiv Sena and without Bala Saheb`s photo,” he mentioned.
Earlier on February 17, in a significant setback to the Uddhav Thackery faction of Shiv Sena, the Election Commission of India (ECI) allotted the get together identify “Shiv Sena” and the image “Bow and Arrow” to the faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
While the Shinde faction welcomed the choice of being acknowledged as the actual Shiv Sena, the Uddhav Thackeray faction mentioned they are going to transfer the Supreme Court.The Commission noticed in its order that the present structure of the Shiv Sena get together is undemocratic and has been “mutilated to undemocratically appoint people from a coterie as office bearers without any election at all”.Â
It mentioned such get together buildings fail to encourage confidence. The ballot panel suggested all political events to mirror democratic ethos and rules of inside get together democracy and recurrently disclose on their respective web sites features of their inside get together functioning, comparable to organisational particulars, holding of elections, the copy of the Constitution and listing of workplace bearers.
“The constitution of political parties ought to provide for free, fair and transparent elections to the posts of office bearers and a further free and fair procedure for the resolution of internal disputes. These procedures ought to be difficult to amend and should be amendable only after ensuring larger support of the organisational members for the same,” the ECI mentioned.
Last month, each the Maharashtra Chief Minister Shinde and former CM Uddhav Thackeray-led factions of the Shiv Sena submitted their written statements in assist of their claims over the get together identify and image to the Election Commission. The ECI had frozen the bow and arrow image of the Shiv Sena and had allotted the `Two Swords and Shield image` to the Eknath Shinde faction of Shiv Sena and the `flaming torch` (mashaal) election image was allotted to the Uddhav Thackeray faction for the bypoll in Andheri East meeting constituency in November final yr.
Shiv Sena had seen a cut up final yr forcing Uddhav Thackeray to resign as Chief Minister of the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities. Shinde later joined palms with BJP to type a authorities within the state.
