While giving his decision on January 10 that the “real Shiv Sena” at the time of the party’s split on June 21, 2022, was the group led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar maintained that the 1999 Sena constitution was the only “official” constitution to consider this question as it was submitted to the Election Commission (EC) by the party. Narwekar also ruled that the Sena’s 2018 amended constitution cited by the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena (UBT), which gave him “unabridged powers”, was “not on record” before the EC and his office.