Rutuja Latke, the candidate picked by Uddhav Thackeray to represent his party in the Andheri East bypoll, has been caught in a bureaucratic tangle, with the BMC sitting on her resignation letter. October 14 being the last for filing the nomination, Latke on Wednesday approached the Bombay High Court to force the civic body to take a call, in a move reminiscent of Uddhav’s recent fight for Shivaji Park.  

Being a BMC employee, Latke has to quit to be eligible to contest the November 3 Andheri East Assembly bypoll, which was necessitated after her MLA husband Ramesh Latke died of a heart attack in May.