Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday approached the Supreme Court docket towards the current verdict by Maharashtra meeting speaker Rahul Narwekar, who held that the faction led by CM Eknath Shinde was the true Shiv Sena.
The primary fulcrum round which the judgment of the Maharashtra legislative meeting speaker revolves is that the Structure of the Shiv Sena is offered by the Election Fee of India and never the unique one of many get together.
The Speaker mentioned the Shinde faction had an awesome majority of 37 of 55 MLAs when rival factions emerged and that Shinde was validly appointed because the chief of the legislature get together. Each factions had filed 34 cross-petitions towards one another looking for the disqualification of 54 MLAs, with the Shinde faction claiming 67 per cent of the Shiv Sena MLAs within the meeting and 75 per cent of the get together’s MPs within the Lok Sabha. Nonetheless, Narwekar refused to disqualify any MLA from each the factions.
A furious Sena (UBT) had asserted that the choice was biased and, by late night, it had introduced that they’d problem the choice within the Supreme Court docket.