NEW DELHI: The
Shiv Sena
(
Uddhav Thackeray
) faction has moved the
Supreme Court
challenging the order of
Maharashtra speaker
to recognize the Eknath Shinde faction as the real Shiv Sena. The Shiv
Sena
(UBT) plea also challenged the dismissal of disqualification pleas against Shinde faction MLAs who had rebelled and split the party in 2022.
In a relief to Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde, Maharashtra assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar had last week held that the Shiv Sena faction led by him was the "real political party" after the split in June 2022.
Rahul Narwekar also rejected Uddhav Thackeray faction's petition to disqualify 16 Shiv Sena MLAs including Shinde. In his order on disqualification petitions filed by both factions, Narwekar said Sunil Prabhu of the Sena (UBT) ceased to be the whip from June 21, 2022, (when the party split) and legislator Bharat Gogawale of the Shinde group became the authorised whip. Narwekar said no party leadership can use provisions of 10th schedule of Constitution (anti-defection law) for dissent or indiscipline within a party.
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