Uddhav Thackeray Steps Up Attack With “Election Commission PM Modi’s Slave”

The Election Commission completed a nearly eight-month-old coup by giving Uddhav Thackeray’s adversary Eknath Shinde control of the Shiv Sena’s name and emblem

A day after the Election Commission gave his adversary and succeeding chief minister of Maharashtra, Eknath Shinde, the Shiv Sena party name and bow-and-arrow emblem, former chief minister of Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray intensified his criticism of the body on Saturday.
The high-stakes poll for Mumbai’s civic body BMC is the next one, and he urged his followers to be patient and be ready for it by declaring that the Election Commission, PM [Narendra] Modi’s slave, has done something unprecedented.

Uddhav Thackeray spoke to a sizable audience that had gathered outside Matoshree, the Thackerays’ house, as a show of force.As a nod to his father Bal Thackeray, who famously addressed supporters from the top of his automobile in the party’s early days, he stepped out of the sunroof of his car.

Uddhav Thackeray made a comment directed at Mr. Shinde, the Maharashtra Chief Minister, in which he claimed that the party’s emblem had been “taken” and that the “thief” needed to learn a lesson.The Election Commission took over the name of the party, which Mr. Thackeray’s father had formed in 1966, to Mr. Shinde on Friday, concluding a coup that had been underway for over eight months.

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The team representing Uddhav Thackeray, who had requested the Election Commission to await the outcome of the matter in the Supreme Court, has announced that they will appeal the ruling before the highest court. The Supreme Court is hearing the dispute between the two parties.

With the assistance of the BJP, Mr. Shinde had staged a coup in June, which led to the final overthrow of Uddhav Thackeray’s cabinet, which comprised two ideologically opposed partners in the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party The Election Commission stated in a 78-page judgement on the lengthy struggle for party leadership that Mr. Shinde was backed by MLAs with 76% of the party’s winning votes in the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections.

The election authority declared that the Uddhav Thackeray group may continue to use the name “Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray” and the “flaming torch” emblem given to them in the last election.