This is a combination image of Uddhav Thackeray on right side and Eknath Shinde on left. (Image source-Express file/photo)Mumbai News Today Highlights A day after the Election Commission of India (ECI) passed an order freezing the electoral symbol of the Shiv Sena – bow and arrow – based on a plea filed by the party’s faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray said, “They(Shinde faction) must be happy today. More than them the ‘superpower'(BJP) would be more happy since they engineered all this.” Uddhav said the BJP will use the Shinde faction and then throw them away.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of the Shiv Sena Sunday wrote to the ECI listing its three preferences for the alternate poll symbol – trishul (trident), rising sun and mashaal (torch). “We have already sent a letter to the ECI giving our preferences for the symbol. The preferences are the trishul, maashal, and the rising sun,” said Arvind Sawant, South Mumbai MP and a leader of the Uddhav-led group.
The Nationalist Congress Party on Sunday said the Election Commission’s order on the use of the Shiv Sena party name and election symbol in an upcoming Assembly bypoll was surprising, but it did not mean the Uddhav Thackeray-led group was weak or demoralised.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) has recorded a significant demand-supply gap for affordable housing, as per the report ‘Brick by Brick: Reimagining Affordable Mumbai’ by Knight Frank – NAREDCO.
Mumbai registered a high demand for affordable housing units with 67 percent of the demand concentration being registered for units costing less than Rs 25 lakh. The demand concentration for housing units in the range of Rs 25 lakh to Rs 50 lakh was recorded at 13 percent and units above Rs 50 lakh at 20 percent. Read more
Police on Sunday filed a first information report (FIR) against Shiv Sena leader Chandrakant Khaire in Aurangabad city of Maharashtra for allegedly making objectionable remarks against state Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, an official said. The case was registered at Satara police station in Aurangabad based on a complaint lodged by Rajendra Janjal, the district unit chief of the Shiv Sena (Shinde faction), he said.
Khaire, a former Member of Parliament from the Aurangabad Lok Sabha constituency, is a loyalist of Uddhav Thackeray, who heads another faction of the Shiv Sena. Read more
Mumbai on Sunday recorded 172 new cases of Covid-19 that raised the tally of infections to 11,51,342, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. The toll remained unchanged at 19,735, while the count of recoveries rose to 11,30,745 after 102 patients recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours, the official said.
With a recovery rate of 98.2 per cent, the city currently has 862 active cases, he said. Of the latest cases, six patients are symptomatic, taking the total number of hospitalised persons to 63, the official said. At least 6,974 swab samples were tested in the city in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of tests conducted so far to 1,83,57,526, he said. (PTI)
The ruling BJP Sunday welcomed the decision of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to freeze the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol of the Shiv Sena. Describing the interim order as nothing surprising, BJP leaders said they will have to wait and watch out for the final order.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis told media persons in Mumbai, “The Election Commission’s decision to freeze the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol claimed by both the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of the Shiv Sena and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led faction is on expected lines. It is nothing surprising.” Read more
Seven lakes that supply drinking water to Mumbai are 97.44 per cent full, and have 14,10,274 million litres (ML) of water stocked as on September 9, easing pressure on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The lakes’ total capacity is 14,47,363 ML. This indicates that the city has water stocked for the next one year, without the BMC having to impose water cuts.
The civic body supplies 3,850 million litres of water on a daily-basis against the city’s demand for almost 4,400 million litres. Read more
The Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of the Shiv Sena Sunday wrote to the ECI listing its three preferences for the alternate poll symbol – trishul (trident), rising sun and mashaal (torch). In a televised address, Thackeray said, "The Election Commission revealed the symbols and names we wanted to the public today morning however nothing was said about the other side (Eknath Shinde camp)"
A day after the Election Commission of India (ECI) passed an order freezing the electoral symbol of the Shiv Sena – bow and arrow – based on a plea filed by the party’s faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray said, 'They(Shinde faction) must be happy today. More than them the 'superpower'(BJP) would be more happy since they engineered all this.'
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The ruling BJP Sunday welcomed the decision of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to freeze the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol of the Shiv Sena. Describing the interim order as nothing surprising, BJP leaders said they will have to wait and watch out for the final order.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis told media persons in Mumbai, “The Election Commission’s decision to freeze the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol claimed by both the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of the Shiv Sena and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led faction is on expected lines. It is nothing surprising.” Read more
Senior Maharashtra Congress leaders on Sunday chose to stay away from the delegate outreach programme of Lok Sabha MP and party presidential poll candidate Shashi Tharoor at the Congress state headquarters in Mumbai. This was in stark contrast to Friday when state leaders queued up to meet his fellow candidate Mallikarjun Kharge at Tilak Bhavan.
Congress state unit chief Nana Patole, who was also absent from Tharoor’s programme, was apparently busy with prior commitments. “I had a word with Patole ji and he informed me about his prior commitment. I am not complaining at all,” said Tharoor when asked about the lukewarm reception he received from the Maharashtra unit. Read more
A day after the Election Commission of India (ECI) passed an order freezing the electoral symbol of the Shiv Sena – bow and arrow – based on a plea filed by the party’s faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of the Shiv Sena Sunday wrote to the ECI listing its three preferences for the alternate poll symbol – trishul (trident), rising sun and mashaal (torch).
“We have already sent a letter to the ECI giving our preferences for the symbol. The preferences are the trishul, maashal, and the rising sun,” said Arvind Sawant, South Mumbai MP and a leader of the Uddhav-led group. Read more
The Mumbai Police has registered an FIR against unidentified persons on charges of cheating and forgery after recovering more than 4,500 affidavits being prepared in support of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction, an official said on Sunday. Former Thane mayor Naresh Mhaske, who is the spokesperson of the other Sena faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, in a video message claimed the Mumbai Police have found 4,682 “fake” affidavits and registered a criminal case against unidentified persons based on a complaint.
He thanked the police and criticised the Thackeray-led faction over the alleged malpractice for the submission of affidavits before the Election Commission, in the wake of a dispute with the Shinde faction over the party’s poll symbol. Read more
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar has welcomed RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s call to end the age-old caste system that leads to discrimination within society. Heaping praise on Bhagwat for taking a bold stand on the matter, Pawar said Saturday, “Such statements should be implemented in reality. Just voicing concern on an issue is not the solution. It should come into force effectively. Otherwise, it will be another lip service.”
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) head had made the remark at a book release event in Nagpur on Friday, triggering debates across the political and social spectrum. Asserting that the caste system had no relevance in the 21st century, Bhagwat emphasised social equity as an integral aspect of Indian tradition and culture. Read more
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction has on Sunday written to the Election Commission of India giving three options as their preference for a poll symbol. The options are Trishul(Trident), rising sun and Mashaal.
The Nationalist Congress Party on Sunday said the Election Commission’s order on the use of the Shiv Sena party name and election symbol in an upcoming Assembly bypoll was surprising, but it did not mean the Uddhav Thackeray-led group was weak or demoralised.
Speaking to reporters here, NCP’s chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase said the Election Commission of India’s decision to freeze the Shiv Sena symbol and party name is surprising and painful. But, it is not the final decision of the Commission. Read more
The Thane Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has dismissed "false and frivolous" accident claims filed by two brothers and ordered action against a tempo driver and two policemen who assisted the petitioners in filing of the claim.
MACT member H M Bhosale, in the October 6 order which was made available on Saturday, also imposed a cost of Rs 3,000 each on the two brothers, Avinash Arjun Chikhale and Devesh Arjun Chikhale.
The brothers in their petition informed the tribunal that on September 1, 2017, they were returning home in Virar town of neighbouring Palghar district in Maharashtra from Sakhlewadi on a motorcycle. (PTI)
The Nationalist Congress Party on Sunday said the Election Commission’s order on the use of the Shiv Sena party name and election symbol in an upcoming Assembly bypoll was surprising, but it did not mean the Uddhav Thackeray-led group was weak or demoralised.
The Election Commission on Saturday barred the Shiv Sena factions led by former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and current Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde from using the party name and its election symbol in the Andheri East Assembly bypoll. Read more
In 1968, Sena fought the Brihanmumbai Municipal corporation (BMC) election on a symbol Shield and Sword. In 1980, the party's symbol in the then Lok Sabha and Assembly was railway engine. In 1985, Shiv Sena fought assembly election on symbols like Torch (Mashaal), Sun and Bat & ball. Its lone winner in the then assembly poll, Chhagan Bhujbal, had won the election with a symbol of Torch. The party was given Bow and Arrow as a symbol in 1989. Since then the party has this symbol for all elections till Oct 2022.
"Election Commission's interim stay on using the symbol of Shiv Sena and also the party name gives rise to the suspicion that whether this decision was taken to help BJP candidate in Andheri East assembly bypoll. The bypoll was between BJP and Uddhav Thackeray 's Shiv Sena. Shinde camp is not even fighting this bypoll. Despite this, the commission has stayed the use of name Shiv Sena. However, we want to reaffirm that this election will be won by Thackeray who has support of Congress and NCP, " Maharashtra NCP chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase.
While the Eknath Shinde-led faction is happy with the decision of the Election Commission of India to freeze the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol of the Shiv Sena, leaders from the Maharashtra chief minister’s camp said Saturday their next fight is to get the poll symbol for their camp.
The Election Commission’s interim order freezing the ‘bow and arrow’ election symbol of the Shiv Sena has come ahead of the high-stakes Andheri (East) Assembly by-poll to be held on November 3. The EC order also came days after the Supreme Court rejected the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena’s prayer to stay proceedings pending before the poll panel over a request by EknathShinde for recognition of his faction as the “real Shiv Sena” and permission to use the party’s ‘bow and arrow’ election symbol. Read more