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SYMBOLISM VERSUS REALITY

he Shiv Sena is no more. Or at least has been sent into a limbo, for now. The Election Commission of India (EC) on Monday, October 10, sealed the split in the 56-year-old party with the allotment of two separate names to the warring factions led by Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde. With it, the poll panel—as an interim measure—denied both of them the right to be the “real” Shiv Sena. The row had started with Shinde’s coup in June that toppled the Uddhav-led

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