The authorized battle over the Shiv Sena's identify and election image has reached the Supreme Court. The Bombay High Court had, on September 30, ordered the Election Commission to freeze the social gathering's identify and image, ' bow and arrow', till additional orders. The order got here after the Shiv Sena, now an ally of the BJP, filed a grievance with the Commission saying that there are a number of different events utilizing the identify Shiv Sena or an analogous identify, which may result in "confusion and inconvenience" to voters. Here are 10 factors on the battle over the Shiv Sena identify:
1. The Shiv Sena, based by late Bal Thackeray in 1966, has been utilizing the identify and image since its inception.
2. In its grievance to the Election Commission, the Shiv Sena stated there are no less than 22 different events utilizing an analogous identify, which may result in "confusion and inconvenience" to voters.
3. Of these, the Sena has named the Maharashtra-based Republican Shiv Sena because the "main culprit". The social gathering was based by Thackeray's nephew, Raj Thackeray, in 2006.
4. The Election Commission had, on September 19, issued a discover to the Shiv Sena on the grievance.
5. The Bombay High Court, on September 30, ordered the Commission to freeze the social gathering's identify and image till additional orders.
6. The Shiv Sena, in its petition to the Supreme Court, has challenged the Bombay High Court order.
7. The Sena has argued that the order was "illegal, arbitrary and malafide" and has triggered "great hardship and irreparable loss".
8. The social gathering has additionally sought an interim keep on the order, saying that the elections to the Maharashtra Legislative Council are scheduled for October 8 and it will likely be "greatly prejudiced" if its identify and image will not be allowed for use.
9. The Supreme Court is but to listen to the Shiv Sena's plea and has adjourned the matter to October 7.
10. The Shiv Sena is at present an ally of the BJP within the Maharashtra authorities. The two events had fought the 2019 Assembly elections collectively however did not get a majority. The Sena later joined palms with the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress to kind the federal government.
