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The Economic Times/ ­- News, Qua, 18 de Abril de 2012
CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL (Supreme Court)
Apex court rejects plea on election
symbols
The Supreme Court Wednesday upheld the Election
Commission's order setting criteria for the allocation of
election symbols to the registered and recognised
political parties. Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice S.S.
Nijaar, constituting a bench of the apex court, in their
majority judgment rejected the plea of a number of
registered but unrecognised political parties for
allocation of permanent poll symbol. These parties had
challenged the validity of the commission's symbol
order, by which, based on certain criteria, election
symbols are allotted to recognise political parties.
Justice J. Chelameswar, in a separate judgment, held
that the symbol order for the allocation of the election
symbol was violative of Article 14, granting equality
before law, and had no rational nexus to the objective
to be achieved. Under the Election Commission
symbol order, any state level political party must have
at least two elected members in the state assembly,
one member in parliament or certain percentage of
votes to attain the status of a "recognised" party and to
get an election symbol.
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