A bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice K V Viswanathan also cautioned the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party not to use the NCP ‘clock’ symbol anywhere and to use the ‘man blowing turha’ symbol allotted to it for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
The two factions had filed disqualification petitions against each other.
The Sharad Pawar faction said that it will move the Supreme Court against the poll panel's decision to recognise Ajit Pawar group as real NCP.
The EC has settled the dispute in the NCP in favour of the faction led by the petitioner Ajit Pawar by this decision.
MPs from the Opposition parties took to streets of the national capital on Thursday over the suspension of MPs from the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament.
In a huge political upheaval, Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar on Sunday 'split' the Nationalist Congress Party to take oath as Deputy Chief Minister in the ruling alliance of Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis.
For the fourth time in three years, Maharashtra braced for a political earthquake as Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar on Sunday 'split' the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to join the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Thursday praised late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi describing her as the strongest Prime Minister.
Nationalist Congress Party President (NCP) Sharad Pawar here on Friday, has indirectly supported the decision of the new Congress government in Karnataka to drop chapters from school textbooks on RSS founder K.B. Hedgewar and Veer Savarkar.
Earlier on Wednesday, in reaction to ED's handling of Senthil Balaji's probe, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray faction) leader Sanjay Raut said that though they keep sending complaints against Ministers from the BJP, he never gets to hear back from them.
