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: At the moment, on July 2, The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) group has once more approached the Supreme Court docket, looking for an pressing listening to relating to the dispute over the Shiv Sena social gathering 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 courtroom that the State Election Fee is more likely to notify the native physique elections shortly.
The lawyer emphasised that the dispute over the social gathering image must be urgently resolved to make sure readability for the voters within the upcoming polls.
Then again, the lawyer representing the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena group opposed the request.
He identified {that a} related plea was beforehand introduced earlier than one other Supreme Court docket 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 prime courtroom’s partial courtroom working days”,
implying there’s room for looking for a listening to now.
The lawyer additional acknowledged that this authorized difficulty considerations
“the query of peoples’ alternative”
and ought to be handled with urgency, particularly since elections are close to.
The plea additionally urges the courtroom to contemplate an interim association, very like what was carried out by the Supreme Court docket within the Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP) image dispute final 12 months.
To recall, in November 2023, the Supreme Court docket 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
“difficulty of allocation of ‘clock’ image was pending in courtroom.”
This order was made whereas the courtroom 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 difficulty of the native physique elections in Maharashtra has additionally been below judicial scrutiny.
On Could 6, 2024, the Supreme Court docket had cleared the way in which for holding native physique elections that had been delayed for over 5 years on account of a authorized difficulty involving reservations.
The courtroom 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 courtroom 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 Court docket 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 offer the social gathering’s official ‘bow and arrow’ image to the Eknath Shinde-led faction in 2023 was flawed.
In response to the counsel, the Speaker’s resolution was based mostly merely on legislative majority,
“which was opposite to the Structure bench verdict of the highest courtroom.”
CASE TITLE:
Sunil Prabhu v. Eknath Shinde & Ors. Particular Go away Petition (Civil) No. 1644-1662 of 2024
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