Eknath Shinde

Earlier this month, the Commission had asked the Shiv Sena factions to submit fresh documents to back their claim to the party's name and its symbol by November 23.

Addressing a rally at Chikhli in Buldhana district, the former chief minister claimed that projects headed for Maharashtra were diverted to Gujarat due to the Assembly elections in that state.

Speaking at an event on Sunday where noted Marathi theatre actor Prashant Damle was felicitated for the 12,500th show of his play 'Eka Lagnachi Gosht', Shinde said the state government will support Marathi theatre and cinema.

Shinde and Fadnavis were speaking at a felicitation programme for Chief Justice of India (CJI) U U Lalit at the Raj Bhavan.

Speaking at the same event earlier, chief minister Shinde said Uddhav Thackeray should introspect as to why 40 of the Sena’s 55 MLAs quit rather than calling them names.

The police have sent the seized gadgets to cyber forensic experts to investigate whether more persons were involved in creating the content of the tweets, he said.

The decision was taken by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who also said all civic employees must get their salary for the month by October 20, ahead of Diwali, he said.

The poll panel's decision came a day after the it granted the flaming torch symbol to the rival Sena faction, headed by Uddhav Thackeray.

Sources said the three symbols submitted by the Shinde group are 'peepal tree', sword and Sun.

In an order on the dispute in the Shiv Sena, the Election Commission allotted ShivSena - Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray' as the party name for the Thackeray faction and Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena' (Balasaheb's Shiv Sena) and the name for the Eknath Shinde group of the party.

Sources in the poll panel on Monday confirmed that the alternative symbols and names have been submitted by both factions for allocation.

Sources in the poll panel confirmed that the alternate symbols and names have been submitted by both the factions.

The Commission's directive to the Thackeray faction came on Friday, when the Shinde faction submitted a memorandum seeking allocation of the bow and arrow' election symbol as the Andheri East assembly bypoll approaches.

Jaidev Thackeray's estranged wife Smita was also present at the MMRDA ground in BKC, the rally site in suburban Mumbai, along with Nihar, the son of late Bindumadhav Thackeray, Uddhav Thackeray's eldest brother.

Shinde’s tweet appears to be targeted at former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aaditya Thackeray. While Uddhav Thackeray heads one faction of the Shiv Sena, Shinde leads another camp.

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The State Intelligence Department (SID) on Saturday evening received specific input about the threat to the life of CM Shinde, the official said.

Cleanliness in cities should become a mass movement, Shinde said, adding that sanitation workers are the brand ambassadors of the new campaign.

Justice D Y Chandrachud, heading a constitution bench, rejected the plea of the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction seeking to restrain the EC from deciding the Shinde group's claim over the original Shiv Sena.

The CM said he would not comment on anyone and that the people of Maharashtra have themselves seen the speed of work in the past-two-and-a-half years.