New Delhi: ECI alloted Shiv Sena name and party symbol Bow and Arrow is allotted to the Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde faction on Friday. The EC issued an order allotting the symbol and the Shiv Sena party name to the faction led by Eknath Shinde.
The EC observed that the current constitution of the Shiv Sena on which former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray was placing reliance is undemocratic. The Commission in its 78 page order issued on Friday said that the Test of party Constitution, the Commission found that the party constitution on which the respondent (Uddhav Thackeray faction) was placing strong reliance is undemocratic.
The complete list of office bearers of various bodies was not provided to the EC, whenever elections were held or appointments were made, the Commission said. The EC observed that amendments in the constitution in 2018 had undone the act of introducing democratic norms in the party constitution of 1999, brought by the late Bal Thackeray at the insistence of the commission.
The EC also said that the name of ‘Balasahebanchi Shivsena’ and the symbol of Two Swords and Shield, which was allotted to the petitioner by way of the interim order, will henceforth be frozen with immediate effect.