Have 'strong moral' case, take early decision: Shinde camp to Narwekar

The Chief Minister Eknath Shindeled Shiv Sena on Friday said it had a strong moral and constitutional case and urged Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar to take a decision on the disqualification pleas of MLAs at the earliest reported news agency PTIThe Shiv Sena split into the Uddhav Thackeray and Shinde factions last year after which the former filed petitions with the Speaker seeking disqualification of several MLAs belonging to the chief ministers campWhile we understand the process and the time required to take this decision We have a strong moral and constitutional case backed by the will of the legislative party parliamentary party workers and voters of the Shiv Sena the Shindeled group said in a statement reported PTIOur politics is deeply committed to the values and principles of our late founder Hindu Hriday Samrat Shri Balasaheb Thackeray Uddhav Thackeray misled us and compromised on our core value system it added reported PTIThe statement said Uddhav Thackeray deceived the people of Maharashtra by not honouring their mandate post the 2019 Assembly polls a reference to the break up of the several decade old Shiv SenaBharatiya Janata Party alliance which led to the formation of the Maha Vikas Aghadi reported PTIThe Shinde groups statement said the Election Commission of India allotted it the name Shiv Sena and bow and arrow in the process recognising it as the original party founded by Bal Thackeray reported PTIThe decision of the Election Commission was on a test on majority as the MLAs supporting the Eknath Shinde group had got nearly 76 per cent of the votes polled for the 55 winning Shiv Sena candidates in the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly elections while the Uddhav Thackeray faction got only 235 per cent of votes it addedIn addition the affidavits of workers and office bearers outweighed those with the Uddhav Thackeray faction the statement addedThe statement claimed the ECI had in scathing observations called the undivided party constitution undemocraticWe have full faith in the Supreme Court which has granted us relief and justice in the past the statement from the Shinde camp said reported PTIIncidentally the Supreme Court on Friday came down hard on the Speaker for the delay in deciding the plea for disqualification of Shinde and several MLAsSomebody has to advise the Speaker that he cannot defeat the orders of the Supreme Court a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said and asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to apprise the court about the timeline for deciding the issueOn September 18 the top court had directed the Maharashtra assembly speaker to spell out the timeline for adjudication of the disqualification petitions against Shinde and other MLAsThe Uddhav Thackerayled Shiv Sena UBT has been consistently claiming Narwekar was delaying in arriving at a decision on the disqualification pleasWith inputs from PTI