Use ‘clock’ symbol in Maharashtra assembly elections with disclaimer: SC to Ajit Pawar

The apical tribunal connected March 19 and April 4 had directed the Ajit Pawar-led faction to contented a nationalist announcement successful the newspapers successful English, Hindi and Marathi editions notifying that the allocation of “clock” awesome was sub-judice. The apex tribunal had further said the Ajit faction was permitted to usage the awesome taxable to the case’s last outcome.

During the proceedings connected Thursday, the seat took enactment of the submissions of elder advocator Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who appeared for the Sharad Pawar faction. Singhvi submitted the hostile radical should beryllium restrained from utilizing the “clock” awesome arsenic it didn’t usage the disclaimer successful their run materials and “misled” voters.

“They person been blatantly not utilizing the disclaimer. They privation to piggyback connected me. Nobody should bask the goodwill of the awesome which is sub-judice,” submitted Singhvi.

The top tribunal directed Ajit Pawar to record a caller undertaking implicit its March 19 and April 4 directions to contented a nationalist announcement — “NCP’s ‘clock’ awesome is sub-judice” — was being meticulously complied with adjacent during the process of the authorities assembly elections.

“File a caller undertaking arsenic good that you person not violated our directions successful the past and till the extremity of elections. If determination is immoderate violation, we volition instrumentality enactment of it. We expect some sides to comply with our directions. Please don’t make an embarrassing situation,” the seat said.
Singhvi said the Ajit Pawar radical should beryllium allocated a caller awesome for the assembly elections.

Senior advocator Balbir Singh, appearing for Ajit Pawar, opposed Singhvi’s submissions and said each pamphlets and run materials contained the disclaimers arsenic directed by the apex court.

“They are showing mendacious documents. We person fixed disclaimers successful our publicity material. They came up with the aforesaid allegations during the Lok Sabha polls which was rejected. I americium consenting to record each documents and pamphlets,” Singh said.
The substance has been posted for proceeding connected November 6.

Sharad Pawar moved the apex tribunal against a February 6 bid of the Election Commission of India (ECI) recognising Ajit Pawar-led radical arsenic the existent NCP.

The ECI had allotted the NCP’s “clock” awesome to the radical led by Ajit Pawar. The NCP, founded by Sharad Pawar, had the “clock” arsenic its predetermination awesome earlier its split.

On March 19, the apical tribunal allowed the Sharad Pawar faction to usage “Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar” arsenic its sanction on with the awesome of a antheral blowing “turha” up of the Lok Sabha polls successful the country.

It had passed the bid connected a plea by the Sharad Pawar radical seeking to restrain the Ajit Pawar faction from utilizing the “clock” awesome for the polls, arsenic allotted by the ECI, connected the crushed that it was disrupting the level playing field.

The apical tribunal had observed the sanction and photographs of Sharad Pawar could not beryllium utilized by the Ajit Pawar faction for governmental gains.
On February 19, the apical tribunal directed for the continuation of the ECI bid allotting “Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar” arsenic the enactment sanction for the Sharad Pawar faction.

Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar had connected February 15 held the NCP faction led by Ajit Pawar to beryllium the existent NCP and said the anti-defection provisions successful the Constitution couldn’t beryllium utilized to stifle interior dissent.
Sharad Pawar had founded the NCP with erstwhile Lok Sabha talker Purno Sangma and Tariq Anwar successful 1999 aft their expulsion from the Congress.

Ajit Pawar had walked distant with a bulk of the NCP MLAs successful July, 2023, and supported the BJP-Shiv Sena authorities led by Eknath Shinde