Shivsena old symbol

Senior politician Chhagan Bhujbal, who was then in the Shiv Sena, had won the election from Mazgaon constituency in Mumbai on the 'flaming torch' symbol when the organisation did not have a fixed poll symbol. Bhujbal later rebelled and quit the party to join the Congress and is now a prominent leader of the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). The 'flaming torch' symbol was used by the Sena in the past during civic body and Assembly polls. The Shiv Sena was founded by Bal Thackeray in 1966 and it took 23 years for the party to get the dedicated 'bow and arrow' symbol. The Sena was recognised as the state party in 1989, which meant it could use a uniform symbol in the state. But earlier, from 1966 to 1989, it contested on different symbols in the Lok Sabha, Assembly and civic polls. ALSO READ | After nearly 33 years, the Election Commission last week froze its 'bow and arrow' symbol for an interim period following a feud between the two Sena factions --- one led by Uddhav Thackeray and the other by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. It also asked the two sides not to use the name 'Shiv Sena'. The EC on Monday allotted 'ShivSena - Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray' as the party name for the Thackeray faction, and 'Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena' (Balasaheb's Shiv Sena) as the name for the Eknath Shinde group of the party. Shiv Sena MP Gajanan Kirtikar, who has been with the party since its inception, said the organisation in 1967-68 first contested the civic body pol...

October 11, 2022 | 10:41 am 3 min read With Shinde faction not contesting the bypoll, the Thackeray camp questioned the ECi's rationale behind freezing the Sena name, symbol The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday allotted new names to both factions of the It is an interim measure until the ECI decides on the "real" Shiv Sena. Earlier, the ECI froze the party's original name and "bow and arrow" symbol. Why does this story matter? A political storm shook former Maharashtra Chief Minister Thackeray's government in June this year after a rebellion by his most loyal commander, The latter took over 40 MLAs and allied with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form a new government. Both factions now stake claim to being called the "real" Sena and the true inheritor of party founder ECI order allotting new name, symbol to Thackeray faction Election Commission of India allots 'flaming torch' ('mashaal') as the election symbol to Uddhav Thackeray's faction of Shiv Sena; faction will now be called 'Shivsena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)' 'Mashaal' new symbol of Uddhav Thackeray camp The mashaal (flaming torch). The Shinde camp will be called "Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena (Balasaheb's Shiv Sena)". But it could not be allotted a new symbol as the The poll body asked Shinde to submit a new list of symbols. ECI stern against religious symbols The Shinde faction had proposed the gada (mace) trishul (trident), and rising sun symbol options, while Thackeray's team also submitted trishul...

The Congress old guard, led by K Kamaraj, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, S Nijalingappa and Atulya Ghosh, known as the Syndicate, nominated Reddy for the post. Indira Gandhi, however, encouraged Vice-President V V Giri to contest as an Independent, and called for a “conscience vote” in defiance of the whip issued by party president Nijalingappa. After Giri won, Indira Gandhi was expelled from the Congress, and the party split into the “old” Congress, or Congress (O), led by Nijalingappa, and the “new” Congress led by Indira Gandhi. The “old” Congress retained the party’s symbol of a pair of bullocks carrying a yoke; the breakaway faction was given the symbol of a cow with its calf. The Election Commission order A case summary on the EC website detailing how the Indira Gandhi group was recognised as “the Indian National Congress”, says: “The Indian National Congress is a recognised National Party under the provisions of the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968. There was a split in that party in 1969, resulting in the formation of two groups, led by Shri Jagjivan Ram and Shri Nijalingappa respectively. “As each group contended that it was the party, the Election Commission adjudicated the dispute between the two rival groups of the party under para 15 of the said Order. After recording the evidence and hearing detailed submissions of both the groups, the Commission came to the conclusion that the group led by Shri Jagjivan Ram enjoyed the majority support, both i...

The Shinde faction and Uddhav Thackeray are at loggerheads over the party’s election symbol after the split in Shiv Sena. Shinde faction claims symbol after Shiv Sena parted ways with 40 MLAsThe hearing will be held under para 15 of the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968.Election Commission will take any decision regarding the symbol only after hearing both the sides. After the revolt in Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, now a tussle has started between the two factions over the party’s symbol. The Eknath Shinde faction, which split with 40 MLAs out of the total 55 MLAs of the party, is claiming itself to be the real Shiv Sena. The Shinde faction says it has the support of more MLAs with it. In such a situation, he has the right over the official symbol of the party, arrow and bow. At the same time, a caveat has been filed in the Election Commission on behalf of Uddhav Thackeray, saying that the commission should not take any decision regarding the party symbol without hearing his side. This is not the first time that two factions have claimed the symbol after a split or rebellion in one party. Many such cases have reached the Commission in the past as well. Know how the Election Commission decides when two factions claim the same symbol. Question: How does the Election Commission decide if there is a dispute over the symbol? Answer: There is a provision for the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968 to settle such disputes. Under this, the ...

As Uddhav Thackeray, the direct familial heir of the Shiv Sena founded by his late father Bal Thackeray in 1966, stood up to address party workers in Uran, near Mumbai, this week, he would have recalled an unpleasant political episode from 1985. “We will teach our detractors a lesson, a befitting lesson,” Thackeray exhorted his party workers, days after the party’s name and symbol had been dramatically changed. The new name, allotted by the election commission, is a mouthful: ‘Shiv Sena – Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray’, and the party’s 38-year-old symbol of bow-and-arrow has been replaced with the flaming torch (mashaal). The Shiv Sena was stripped of its identity in June when the late Thackeray’s loyalist Eknath Shinde stunned Uddhav by splitting its legislative wing. The split, a guerrilla operation, apparently had the blessings — logistical and otherwise — of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Within days, Shinde and BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis formed the Maharashtra government replacing the one led by Uddhav Thackeray. However, Shinde did not function like the other turncoats in the Shiv Sena, who had walked out alone or with only a handful of loyalists which did not shake the very foundation of the party; Shinde’s rebellion was larger, and led to the party losing its name and symbol. A non-Thackeray, a local satrap, claimed to be the true heir of Bal Thackeray’s politics. To Uddhav Thackeray, Shinde’s blow would have hurt as much as when his cousin Raj Thackeray walked out of...