The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction on Monday, October 10, approached the Delhi high court seeking quashing of the order of Election Commission of India (ECI) freezing the party name and election symbol.
In addition, Thackeray has sought a direction that ECI be asked to consider and allot the symbol proposed by him without restricting the choice of symbol from the list of free symbols notified under the Symbols Order.
However, it is pertinent to note that this development came after both factions – Thackeray and Shinde -- submitted three symbols each to EC earlier in the day.
The petition, filed by Thackeray, has challenged ECI's October 8 order contending it was passed in complete violation of principles of natural justice and without granting any hearing to the parties.
The plea moved through Advocates Vivek Singh, Devyani Gupta and Tanvi Anand, that restricting Thackeray from selecting a symbol from a limited list of symbols 'strikes at the very root of his entitlement to choose or propose a symbol of his own choice.
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If reports are to be believed, the plea also claims that merely because a bye election was announced for Andheri East Constituency, wherein admittedly Eknath Shinde or his group are not even setting up any candidate, there was no reason for ECI to change the existing status quo regarding the use of name and Symbol by Thackeray by freezing the symbol of the Shiv Sena party.
On the other hand, Eknath Shinde has also filed a caveat in the plea against initiation of proceedings challenging the impugned order. The caveat is filed through Advocates Chirag Shah, Utsav Trivedi, Manini Roy and Himanshu Sachdeva.
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