New Delhi: Shiv Sena factions led by Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde can’t use the party name and symbol in the upcoming Andheri East assembly bypoll.
The Election Commission of India on Saturday barred both the camps from using party symbol bows and arrows and Shiv Sena name.
In an interim order over the claims by the rival factions for control of the organisation, the commission asked them to suggest by Monday three different name choices and also as many free symbols for allocation to their respective groups.
The interim order came on Saturday on the Shinde faction’s request seeking it be allocated the symbol as the Andheri East assembly bypoll is approaching. “The Commission is duty bound to ensure that all electoral steps of the bye election are free of any confusion and contradiction and thus its next step are necessarily agnostic to the possibility of either of the faction participating in the poll,” the interim order said.
