{"id":501120,"date":"2024-02-06T20:22:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=501120"},"modified":"2024-02-06T20:30:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:00:04","slug":"ajit-pawar-sharad-pawar-election-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/ajit-pawar-sharad-pawar-election-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Commission rules Ajit Pawar faction the real Nationalist Congress Party, Sharad Pawar faction to get temporary symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Election Commission on Tuesday settled the dispute in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and ruled in favour of the faction led by Ajit Pawar as the real NCP in a massive setback for party founder Sharad Pawar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was made after more than 10 hearings spread over six months. The Election Commission has provided a one-time option to Sharad Pawar to claim a name for his political formation and provide three preferences to the Commission by 3pm on February 7, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ajit Pawar got the NCP name and symbol, the clock, after more than 10 hearings of distinguished legal teams. The EC said in a release that the decision followed the laid-out tests of maintainability of such a petition which included tests of aims and objectives of the party constitution, test of party constitution and tests of majority both organizational and Legislative. The test of majority in the legislative wing found favour in this circumstance of the case, where both groups have found to be working outside the party constitution and the organizational elections. Thus, the occupants of the post were primarily assessed to be appointed by self-nominated members of electoral college and against the internal party democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big one ahead of Lok Sabha Elections \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffc<br><br>EC rules NCP symbol and party name to go to Ajit Pawar faction<br><br>Sharad Pawar faction to be given temporary symbol on one time basis by tmrw for Rajya Sabha polls<\/p>&mdash; Anubhuti Vishnoi (@anubhutivishnoi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anubhutivishnoi\/status\/1754870344458895866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Serious inconsistencies in terms of timelines in the claim of the Sharad Pawar group, in support of their claim of having organizational majority, resulted in unreliability of their claim, the EC statement said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking into account, the significant timeline of the elections to the six seats of the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra, the Sharad Pawar faction has been given a special concession to comply with Rule 39AA of Conduct of Elections Rules 1961, which allows authorised agents of political parties to verify as to whom an elector, who is a member of a political party has cast his vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second such instance where the party and symbol has been snatched from either the founder (in this case) via the Election Commission or from the successor of the founder (in the case of the Shiv Sena) through the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker. Both the Ajit Pawar-led NCP and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are part of the ruling alliance in Maharashtra along with the BJP.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission using its powers has provided Sharad Pawar faction, a one-time option to claim a name to its new political formation and provide three preferences to the Commission. 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