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Business Line/ ­- Markets, Qua, 18 de Abril de 2012
CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Supreme Court)
Party symbols: SC upholds EC criteria
NEW DELHI, APRIL 18: In a majority verdict, the
Supreme Court today upheld the criteria of the
Election Commission (EC) for granting symbols to
unrecognised registered political parties. A three­-judge
bench comprising Justices Mr Altamas Kabir, Mr S.S.
Nijjar and Mr Jasti Chelameswar upheld the panel’s
symbol order by a two­-to­-one majority. Justice
Chelameswar wrote the dissenting order against the
EC’s symbol order. The court passed the order on a
batch of petitions filed by State political parties
challenging the symbol order of the EC. According to
the EC’s order, a permanent symbol is granted to
political parties that have garnered at least five per
cent votes in the Assembly elections or have managed
to win two assembly seats or one seat in parliamentary
elections from the State. Several parties including the
Praja Rajyam Party, the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi and the
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam had approached
the apex court in 2008 against the EC’s decision to
change their symbol from what was allotted to them
previously.
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