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.
National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Friday said Ghulam Nabi Azad must have resigned from the Congress as he must not be getting respect and love from the party and added that the country needs a stronger opposition.
The new Maharashtra government came to power after Shiv Sena MLA Eknath Shinde's 10-day rebellion brought down the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government.
The NCP Student Wing will organise a Maharashtra Youth Carnival for encouraging college students with competitions and other activities with prizes.
On Wednesday afternoon, Malik had made the sensational claim that a BJP 'vice-president', Manish Bhanushali, and another 'private detective', Kiran Gosavi, were involved in the NCB operation on Sunday.
The Congress earlier this month had brushed aside a "15 day ultimatum" served by the NCP national general secretary Praful Patel, who had given the Congress in Goa 15-days time to decide on an alliance between the two parties for the 2022 assembly polls.
