Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena gets modified 'mashaal' symbol ahead of Maharashtra Assembly election 2024

The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) faction got a modified 'mashaal' (torch) election symbol from the Election Commission today (October 18). In the Lok Sabha elections, the 'mashaal' election symbol was said to look like an ice cream cone by the Uddhav faction. Now, a slight change has been made and a clear 'mashaal' has been shown in the symbol.

The Election Commission (EC) in October 2022 allotted the name 'Balasahebanchi ShivSena' to the Shinde faction and ''Shiv Sena (Uddhav



Balasaheb Thackeray)' to the faction led by Uddhav Thackeray. 

The poll panel has declined to allot 'Trishul', 'Rising Sun' and 'Gada' as symbols as they are "not in the list of free symbols".

It earlier asked the Shinde faction of Shiv Sena to furnish a list of three fresh symbols by October 11 and declared the 'flaming torch' as the symbol of candidates of the Thackeray faction in the current by-election and till the final order is passed in the current dispute.