The Supreme Court is set to hear today a plea filed by Shiv Sena UBT leader Sunil Prabhu, challenging the ruling of Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar, which held that the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led faction is the ‘real’ Shiv Sena.

In January this year, a bench headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra issued a notice and called for responses from CM Shinde and 38 other MLAs of his faction.

This hearing also coincides with a similar plea filed by Sharad Pawar group leader Jayant Patil seeking disqualification of Ajit Pawar faction MLAs for defecting and joining the Sena-BJP govt.