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"Accordingly, JD(U) is hereby recognised as the Janata Dal (United) in terms of Paragraph-'l5 of the Symbols Order," it said. Incidentally, the Maharashtra MLC - Kapil Harishchandra Patel - has also filed an affidavit of support to the other JD(U) faction as well.The Nitish group, on its part, argued the present strength of the JD(U) national council was 195, with organisational elections held in October last. EC said it had received communications from both the JD(U) factions stating that they intended to contest the Gujarat election and sought commission's approval for allotment of 'arrow' symbol for their candidates during the polls. The information regarding the organisational elections has been uploaded on EC's website. The petitioner's council said his client had submitted affidavits of 450 persons out of 1,098 members of the national council.Vasava's papers further claimed that his group commanded the support of two out of 10 Rajya Sabha MPs from Gujarat and one MLC of Maharashtra..