Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar has started pronouncing his order on the disqualification of Shiv Sena MLAs.
Narwekar said that he was relying on the 1999 constitution of the Shiv Sena as the ‘valid constituion’. A 2018 edition of the guidelines was deemed invalid as it does not feature on Election Commission records.
“The constitution of Shiv Sena provided by ECI is the relevant constitution of Shiv Sena for the determination of which faction is the real political party,” he said.
“In view of the evidence and records before me, prima facie indicates that no elections were held in the year 2013, as well as in the year 2018. However, I as the speaker exercising jurisdiction under the 10th schedule have limited jurisdiction and cannot go beyond the record of the ECI as available on the website and hence I have not considered this aspect while determining the relevant leadership structure. Thus, given the above conclusions, I find that the leadership structure of Shiv reflected in the letter dated 27th February 2018 available on the website of the ECI is the relevant leadership structure which has to be taken into account for the purpose of determining which faction is the real political party…” he added.
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