Supreme Court To Hear Shiv Sena (UBT) Plea On July 14 Amid Poll Tension
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SC agrees to listen to Uddhav Thackeray faction’s plea over ‘bow and arrow’ image dispute forward of Maharashtra native physique polls. “Query of peoples’ alternative,” says counsel urging pressing listening to.
New Delhi: Right now, on July 2, The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) group has once more approached the Supreme Courtroom, searching for an pressing listening to relating to the dispute over the Shiv Sena get together image—‘bow and arrow’—because the native physique elections in Maharashtra are anticipated to be introduced quickly.
On Wednesday, the matter was talked about earlier than a bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Ok Vinod Chandran. The bench has agreed to listing the case for listening to on July 14.
Throughout the listening to, the counsel representing Shiv Sena (UBT) knowledgeable the court docket that the State Election Fee is prone to notify the native physique elections shortly.
The lawyer emphasised that the dispute over the get together image must be urgently resolved to make sure readability for the voters within the upcoming polls.
However, the lawyer representing the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena group opposed the request.
He identified {that a} comparable plea was beforehand introduced earlier than one other Supreme Courtroom bench led by Justice Surya Kant on Could 7, and it was not accepted on the time.
Nonetheless, the Uddhav Thackeray group’s lawyer argued that the Justice Kant-led bench had made it clear that
“the matter may very well be talked about through the high court docket’s partial court docket working days”,
implying there’s room for searching for a listening to now.
The lawyer additional acknowledged that this authorized concern issues
“the query of peoples’ alternative”
and must be handled with urgency, particularly since elections are close to.
The plea additionally urges the court docket to think about an interim association, very like what was executed by the Supreme Courtroom within the Nationalist Congress Occasion (NCP) image dispute final 12 months.
To recall, in November 2023, the Supreme Courtroom had directed the Ajit Pawar-led NCP faction to publish a disclaimer in a number of newspapers, together with Marathi dailies, stating clearly that the
“concern of allocation of ‘clock’ image was pending in court docket.”
This order was made whereas the court docket was listening to the dispute between Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar relating to the usage of the ‘clock’ image, which is the official election image of the NCP.
In the meantime, the bigger concern of the native physique elections in Maharashtra has additionally been underneath judicial scrutiny.
On Could 6, 2024, the Supreme Courtroom had cleared the best way for holding native physique elections that had been delayed for over 5 years as a result of a authorized concern involving reservations.
The court docket had directed the Maharashtra State Election Fee to inform the elections inside 4 weeks.
Following that improvement, on Could 7, the Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction had as soon as once more sought an pressing listening to earlier than the highest court docket to problem the Maharashtra Meeting Speaker’s resolution to allot the ‘bow and arrow’ image to the Shinde-led group.
However at the moment, the Supreme Courtroom suggested the Uddhav camp to concentrate on the native physique elections as a substitute, with the bench reportedly saying that they need to
“focus on native physique polls”
for now.
The Uddhav Thackeray faction has constantly maintained that the Meeting Speaker’s resolution to provide the get together’s official ‘bow and arrow’ image to the Eknath Shinde-led faction in 2023 was unsuitable.
In accordance with the counsel, the Speaker’s resolution was based mostly merely on legislative majority,
“which was opposite to the Structure bench verdict of the highest court docket.”
CASE TITLE:
Sunil Prabhu v. Eknath Shinde & Ors. Particular Go away Petition (Civil) No. 1644-1662 of 2024
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