Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday visited Balasaheb Thackeray memorial in Mumbai and offered him a floral tribute after the Election Commission of India's (ECI) announcement of the Shiv Sena name and symbol being retained by the Shinde faction
Updated On: 2023-02-18 09:43 AM IST
The Commission on Friday ordered that the party name "Shiv Sena" and the party symbol "Bow and Arrow" will be retained by the Eknath Shinde faction (Pic/Eknath Shinde's team)
The Commission said MLAs backing Eknath Shinde got nearly 76 per cent of votes polled in favour of the 55 winning Shiv Sena candidates in the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls (Pic/Eknath Shinde's team)
The Uddhav Thackeray faction's MLAs got 23.5 per cent of votes polled in favour of the winning Shiv Sena candidates, the three-member Commission said in a unanimous order (Pic/Eknath Shinde's team)
Speaking to the reporters, Shinde who spearheaded the revolt against Uddhav Thackeray last year to topple the MVA government in the state, said that the development has occurred due to the blessings of the founder of Shiv Sena Balasaheb Thackeray (Pic/Eknath Shinde's team)
"All of this has happened with the blessings of Balasaheb Thackeray. We established the government with his blessings and we are taking forward his ideology. That is why we welcome this order by the EC," Shinde said (Pic/PTI)
