Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MP Arvind Sawant on Tuesday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, urging him not to entertain any unauthorised claims seeking recognition of a separate group or merger involving MPs elected on the party’s symbol.
The letter comes amid growing speculation that several MPs from the party may join the rival Shiv Sena faction led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, The Indian Express reported.
In the letter, sent on the instructions of party chief Uddhav Thackeray, Sawant said media reports suggested that some MPs elected on the Shiv Sena (UBT) symbol had either approached or were considering approaching the Lok Sabha speaker’s office seeking recognition as a separate group or a merger with another political party in the Lok Sabha.
The Lok Sabha MP urged Birla not to entertain any such claim.
Sawant said Shiv Sena (UBT) remained a “single political party” in the eyes of the law and argued that the parliamentary party was “represented in the House through its duly authorised leader and whip, and that no separate recognition, status, privilege or facility be accorded to any purported faction or breakaway group claiming to represent the party”.
He stated that the constitutional framework did not allow for “multiple competing formations claiming to represent the same political...
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