'Applications of Uddhav and Shinde camps for Dussehra rally may be rejected'

With the Mumbai civic body yet to take a call on the applications filed by rebel Shiv Sena camps to hold the annual Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park BJP leader and Maharashtra minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on Wednesday said the pleas may be rejected and the applicants asked to hold their respective events at some other public placesThe Dussehra rally is the major event in the annual calendar of Shiv Sena since the days of the late Bal ThackerayThe situation changed after Eknath Shinde rebelled with 40 MLAs against Sena president Uddhav Thackeray and staked claim to the party and the poll symbolThe factions led by Chief Minister Shinde and Thackeray had applied separately in the Mumbai civic body for permission to organise the Dussehra rally at the Shivaji ParkThe administration may reject applications of both the sides and ask them to hold their respective rallies at some other public places Mungantiwar told reporters but didnt elaborateAlso Read IT dept conducts raids on Delhibased think tank Centre for Policy ResearchThe Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC was ruled by the Shiv Sena for almost three decades Currently its affairs are managed by a state administrator as the term of the civic body has ended and the election schedule has not yet been announcedMungantiwar who holds the Forest portfolio in the Eknath ShindeDevendra Fadnavis government also said the poll symbol of Shiv Sena a bow and arrow belongs to the Shinde campEknath Shinde had demanded to freeze the Senas election symbol in the Supreme Court I think that a party symbol belongs to its members and its not the property of an individual If Shinde enjoys the support of 40 MLAs of original Shiv Sena he has the right to claim the poll symbol he saidMungantiwar said a poll symbol is not a property that outsiders cannot stake claim toEarlier in the day a fivejudge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court had said that it will hear on September 27 an application of the Uddhav Thackerayled faction seeking to restrain the Election Commission from deciding on the claim of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shindeled group over the original Shiv Sena partySenior BJP leader and state Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has dismissed allegations that the Mumbai civic body was blocking all the grounds for the Dussehra rally The state government has not blocked any grounds Permissions will be given as per norms he said in NagpurThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever