Mumbai News Live Updates: EC allots ‘two swords and a shield’ poll symbol to Shinde faction of Sena – The Indian Express

The Election Commission allotted the name Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and flaming torch symbol to the Shiv Sena faction led by former CM Uddhav Thackeray. A day after the Election Commission (EC) of India froze Shiv Sena’s name and bow and arrow poll symbol, party chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday slammed Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Sena faction along with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while terming the poll panel’s order as an “injustice” towards him and the party. In a virtual address to the Sena cadre and people of Maharashtra, Uddhav called the Shinde faction a 40-headed Ravana who took away Lord Rama’s “bow and arrow”, which was also dear to late Sena founder Bal Thackeray.

In other news, the Mumbai Crime Branch arrested five people linked to fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim’s ‘D’ company in connection with an extortion case, a police official said. The police’s anti-extortion cell (AEC) had recently arrested gangster Chhota Shakeel’s brother in law Salim Qureshi alias Salim Fruit and businessman Riyaz Bhati in an extortion case and charged them under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). During further probe into the case, the role of five more people — Ajay Ganda, Feroz Chamda, Sameer Khan, Papa Pathan and Amjad Redkar — came to light and hence they were nabbed.