Mumbai: Thackeray faction's ex-corporators camp outside Shiv Sena office at BMC HQ

More than a dozen former corporators of the Uddhav Thackerayled group camped outside the Shiv Sena office at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation headquarters here to thwart any attempt by the Eknath Shindeled faction to take control of itAfter the former corporators sat outside the office located on the ground floor of the BMC headquarters on Monday police security was stepped up to avoid any law and order issue officials said on TuesdayNotably CM Shinde on Monday said no claim will be laid on any party property post the Election Commissions decision on the real Shiv Sena as we are heirs of Balasaheb Thackerays ideology and have no temptationsThe Election Commission took the decision on the Shiv Sena name and bow and arrow symbol as per rules and the office in the vidhimandal Legislature complex is of the Shiv Sena As far as property is concerned we have no temptations he had saidThose who were tempted by property and wealth took the wrong step in 2019 he had said in an apparent reference to Uddhav Thackeray breaking the Shiv Senas alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party post the Assembly poll results over the sharing of the chief ministerial tenureThackeray had aligned with the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress to form the Maha Vikas Aghadi which ruled till June last yearIn December 2022 the BMC administration had sealed offices of all political parties at the civic headquarters following a faceoff between the rival Shiv Sena factionsThose offices are still sealedThe BMC headquarters which is a heritage building has offices of all major political parties on its ground floorAlso Read Maharashtra Dissolve poll body says Uddhav ThackerayThe Election Commission on Friday recognised the Shindeled faction as the real Shiv Sena and ordered allocation of the bow and arrow poll symbol to it in the process delivering a big blow to Uddhav Thackeray whose father Bal Thackeray founded the outfit in 1966The EC allowed the Thackeray faction to retain the name Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray and the flaming torch poll symbol given to it in an interim order in October last year till the conclusion of the upcoming Assembly bypolls in the stateThis 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