ECI Asks Uddhav, Eknath To Submit Proof To Show Majority Members In Shiv Sena

New Delhi: The Election Fee of India has requested Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to submit documentary proof to show that their respective factions have majority members within the Shiv Sena, reported information company ANI. 

Earlier this week, MLAs from the Uddhav Thackeray faction had filed a contemporary plea within the Supreme Court docket which challenged the disqualification proceedings initiated in opposition to them below the constitutional scheme. 

Turmoil within the Shiv Sena started final month when Eknath Shinde turned insurgent together with 39 different legislators pushing the Maha Vikaas Aghadi authorities — an alliance between Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Occasion and Congress — to minority in Maharashtra. 

The Election Fee of India asks each Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde to submit documentary proof to show that they’ve the bulk members within the Shiv Sena.

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Later Uddhav Thackeray resigned from the put up of Chief Minister and MLA and a day after, Eknath Shinde was sworn in as the brand new Maharashtra CM with Devendra Fadnavis as his deputy. 

A bench of Chief Justice of India NV Ramana which is listening to the matter had granted an interim aid to the legislators from the Uddhav Thackeray faction on July 11 because it requested the Maharashtra Speaker Rahul Narwekar to not proceed with the plea looking for their disqualification as sought by the Shinde group on the bottom of defying the occasion whip throughout belief vote and the election of speaker.