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Sep 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#SC says no stay on proceedings before the Election Commission in case related to #Maharashtra politics
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Application by Uddhav Thackeray faction dismissed by apex court
This means the case where #EC is hearing who constitutes the real #ShivSena - Eknath Shinde group or Uddhav Thackeray group - can go ahead
Justice D Y Chandrachud, heading constitution bench, rejected the Thackeray faction's plea to restrain #EC from deciding. Others on the bench: Justices M R Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli & P S Narasimha

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As a biographer of Balasaheb Thackeray & chronicler of the Shiv Sena's history, the most fascinating thing I've seen over the past year is how the very same people -- from Bollywood, media, academia, society's so-called 'elite' -- who could never stand the sight of the Sena...
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