new delhi ajit pawar leader of the breakaway ncp faction wrote to the election commission staking claim to the ncp name and alarm clock symbol on june 30 two days before he joined the eknath shindeled government in maharashtra with eight party mlas also see maharashtra politics liveon wednesday the poll panel received affidavits of 43 ncp mlas mps and mlcs all dated june 30 declaring allegiance to the ajit faction and an undated resolution unanimously electing sharad pawars nephew as the ncp chiefread alsoelected ncp chief 2 days before coup how ajit pawar planned his rebellion against sharad pawarajit pawar joined the eknath shindeled nda government in maharashtra on july 2 not as a rebel of ncp but as the national president of the party displacing his uncle sharad pawar who founded it in 1999it has now emerged that ajit pawar had already approached the ec on june 30 for stake over theon july 3 the ec received an email from jayant r patil president of ncps maharashtra unit filing a caveat against the ec issuing any directive relating to the ncp name and symbol without hearing the group led by ncp chief sharad pawar the email also apprised the ec of a plea filed before the maharashtra assembly speaker by ncp led by sharad pawar seeking disqualification of the nine mlas who were sworn in as ministers in the shinde government on july 2ajit pawar you are 83 will you retire or not sharad pawar battles ncp crisisno immediate action is expected from the ec as the legal framework for deciding petitions filed under para 15 of the symbols order 1968 requires filings by the different factions staking claim to the party name and symbol to be exchanged between them the commission is yet to receive any documentation from the sharad pawar groupincidentally chief election commissioner rajiv kumar and other members of the commission are due to travel abroad over the next few days while kumar left for colombia on wednesday to attend an executive board meeting of the association of world election bodies aweb election commissioner anup chandra pandey will be travelling to uzbekistan on thursday as an international observer for the presidential electionsince the ec hears and adjudicates symbol disputes in a quasijudicial capacity it may decide to issue an interim order freezing the party name and alarm clock symbol and ask the warring factions to choose a different party name and symbol until the dispute is decided it had done so in the case relating to the recent split in shiv sena going only by the documents filed by the factions led by uddhav thackeray and eknath shinde rather than starting hearings in view of the urgency arising out of the andheri east assembly bypollof course the ec when not forced by an immediate bypoll or poll may also hear initial arguments of the factions to decide whether there is a genuine split in the party before issuing an interim order freezing