Mumbai News Today: Friction in Uddhav Thackeray’s Sena over poor handling of EC affairs | Mumbai NewsWORLD NEWS
MUMBAI: Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday called for an urgent meeting of Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders at his residence Matoshree to review Speaker Rahul Narwekar’s disqualification order. While UBT Sena is expected to move Supreme Court, a section of leaders are reportedly upset over the party backroom operators’ failure to get the party’s amended 2018 constitution on Election Commission’s records and the Speaker’s office.
Sources said internal friction was seen among leaders over the poor handling of the EC affairs.UBT Sena functionaries said handling the affairs of EC and legislature was the responsibility of MP Anil Desai and ex-minister Subhash Desai. The fact that the party’s 2018 constitution was not on EC’s records and Narwekar held the 1999 constitution as valid proved to be a key issue in Narwekar declaring the Shinde faction as the real Shiv Sena and rejecting disqualification petitions against them.
Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut was among those who attended Thursday’s meeting.
Sena (UBT) MLC Anil Parab said all documents of the 2018 amendments were given to EC and will be given to the SC. “There is no internal friction,” he said.
UBT camp MP Arvind Sawant said Uddhav Thackeray was made party chief in 2013. “In the national executive meeting (in 2018), we elected Uddhav Thackeray to the post of party chief. Who gave Shinde the AB form… who gave him the post of leader of opposition? So far EC has never said the constitution is invalid. There was no friction (between Sena UBT leaders) at all. It was discussed that we will go to SC. A legislative party has limits of terms. This is nothing but making a cruel mockery of the constitution. In 2018, Shinde was given the post of leader. We have submitted all the changes in the constitution to EC, we have the evidence,” he said.
Sources said internal friction was seen among leaders over the poor handling of the EC affairs.UBT Sena functionaries said handling the affairs of EC and legislature was the responsibility of MP Anil Desai and ex-minister Subhash Desai. The fact that the party’s 2018 constitution was not on EC’s records and Narwekar held the 1999 constitution as valid proved to be a key issue in Narwekar declaring the Shinde faction as the real Shiv Sena and rejecting disqualification petitions against them.
Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut was among those who attended Thursday’s meeting.
Sena (UBT) MLC Anil Parab said all documents of the 2018 amendments were given to EC and will be given to the SC. “There is no internal friction,” he said.
UBT camp MP Arvind Sawant said Uddhav Thackeray was made party chief in 2013. “In the national executive meeting (in 2018), we elected Uddhav Thackeray to the post of party chief. Who gave Shinde the AB form… who gave him the post of leader of opposition? So far EC has never said the constitution is invalid. There was no friction (between Sena UBT leaders) at all. It was discussed that we will go to SC. A legislative party has limits of terms. This is nothing but making a cruel mockery of the constitution. In 2018, Shinde was given the post of leader. We have submitted all the changes in the constitution to EC, we have the evidence,” he said.