Uddhav Thackeray on Monday demanded the dissolution of the Election Commission of India (ECI), whose order unseated him from the Shiv Sena throne, and alleged a conspiracy in the allocation of the party name and symbol to the Eknath Shinde-led rebel faction. “The ECI’s decision is wrong,” he said, after his lawyers moved the Supreme Court against the poll body. “Servants have been appointed on the commission which should be dissolved.”

Shinde group members with chief whip Bharat Gogavale (seated) at the Vidhan Bhavan office that the ECI-recognised party claimed on Monday from the Thackeray faction