{"id":39996,"date":"2022-05-17T23:32:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T18:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/?p=39996"},"modified":"2022-05-17T23:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T18:02:15","slug":"complaint-sent-to-eci-against-haryana-state-election-commission-for-including-reserved-symbols-of-aap-sad-in-list-of-free-symbols-for-upcoming-municipal-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/complaint-sent-to-eci-against-haryana-state-election-commission-for-including-reserved-symbols-of-aap-sad-in-list-of-free-symbols-for-upcoming-municipal-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"COMPLAINT SENT TO ECI AGAINST HARYANA STATE ELECTION COMMISSION FOR INCLUDING RESERVED SYMBOLS OF AAP, SAD\u00a0 IN LIST OF FREE SYMBOLS FOR UPCOMING\u00a0 MUNICIPAL POLLS"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHANDIGARH, MAY 17 (PRESS KI TAQUAT BUREAU) – <\/strong>In\u00a0April 2022, the Haryana State Election Commission\u00a0 (SEC) issued\u00a0 two number of Notifications which,\u00a0inter alia<\/em>, contain different Lists of Free Symbols for allotment to candidates who would contest as Independents\/Non-Political Party fielded\u00a0Candidates for Election to Post of President, Municipal Committee\/Council and Mayor, Municipal Corporation as well as\u00a0 Member, Municipal Committee\/Council\/Corporation in upcoming General Elections to three-tier Municipal Bodies in the State of Haryana as scheduled in next few months\/weeks.<\/p>\n

However, when an Advocate at Punjab and Haryana High Court, Hemant Kumar, recently checked the aforementioned Lists of Free Symbols\u00a0 in the\u00a0 two Notifications as notified by SEC, Haryana,<\/p>\n

he found that such Free Symbols list also includes Reserved Symbols of certain Recognized (State) Parties in various States of India which have been\u00a0 reserved and notified by Election Commission of India (ECI) in pursuance of Paragraph 17 of the Election Symbols (Reservation and\u00a0Allotment) Order, 1968 vide Gazette Notification, the latest being issued\u00a0dated 23 September 2021.<\/p>\n

Amongst such\u00a0 Reserved Symbols of Recognized State Parties which have been\u00a0 included in List of Free Symbols by SEC Haryana,\u00a0 \u00a0Hemant\u00a0 asserts that BROOM and SCALE(S) which are Reserved Symbols of AAM AADMI PARTY (AAP) and SHIROMANI AKALI DAL (SAD) in the States of NCT of Delhi,Punjab and Punjab respectively wherein both are Recognized State Parties since long, have also been included therein the List of Free Symbols by SEC, Haryana.<\/p>\n

The SEC, Haryana issued\u00a0 two Notifications mention BROOM at Serial No. 8 and SCALE(S) at Serial No. 40 in the List of Free Symbols for Election of Member of\u00a0Municipal Committee\/Council as well as Member, Municipal Corporation.<\/p>\n

Hemant also wrote that two months back in\u00a0 Feb-March, 2022 General Elections to Goa Legislative Assembly,\u00a0AAM AADMI PARTY (AAP)\u00a0 won 2 seats as well as over 6 percent Votes, hence it would be soon be recognized as State Party in State of Goa too by ECI under Paragraph 6A (i) of\u00a0Election Symbols (Reservation and\u00a0Allotment) Order, 1968 in forthcoming latest Notification by ECI under Paragraph 17 of ibid 1968 Order.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, both the above referred Reserved Symbols of AAP and SAD viz. BROOM AND SCALE(S) respectively have been added recently in the List of Free Symbols by SEC, Haryana\u00a0 for\u00a0 candidates\u00a0\u00a0who would contest as Independents\/Non-Political Party fielded\u00a0Candidates that too only for\u00a0 Member, Municipal Committee\/Council\/Corporation in General Elections to three-tier Municipal Bodies in the State of Haryana as scheduled in next few months.<\/p>\n

Be that as it may, Hemant seriously wonders\u00a0 why the State Election Commission, Haryana has not made\/revised its Lists of Free Symbols from corresponding TABLE IV, i.e. from 197 Free Symbols as contained in ECI Gazette\u00a0Notification dated 23 September 2021. The Advocate\u00a0is of the considered legal viewpoint\u00a0that as Reserved Symbols of all 8 Recognized National Parties in India as well as 2 Recognized State Parties in State of Haryana viz. INLD (Indian National Lok Dal) and JJP (Jannayak Janta Party) are not included in the Lists of Free Symbols as\u00a0made\/revised and notified by SEC, Haryana on similar lines,the Reserved Symbols of all other Recognized State Parties in various States of India should also not be included in Lists of Free Symbols\u00a0by\u00a0\u00a0SEC, HARYANA.<\/p>\n

Hemant has requested the Election Commission of India (ECI) through Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and the sole Election Commissioner (EC) to suitably communicate\/correspond with State Election Commission (SEC), Haryana and impress upon the latter to\u00a0 substitute all such Symbols as included in its recently notified revised List of Free Symbols (which are nevertheless declared and notified as Reserved Symbols of Recognized State Parties by ECI under\u00a0Paragraph 17 of ibid 1968 Order) with suitable Free Symbols from the List of 197 Symbols contained\u00a0 ECI Gazette\u00a0Notification dated 23 September 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CHANDIGARH, MAY 17 (PRESS KI TAQUAT BUREAU) – In\u00a0April 2022, the Haryana State Election Commission\u00a0 (SEC) issued\u00a0 two number of Notifications which,\u00a0inter alia, contain different Lists of Free Symbols for allotment to candidates who would contest as Independents\/Non-Political Party fielded\u00a0Candidates for Election to Post of President, Municipal Committee\/Council and Mayor, Municipal Corporation as well as\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10243,14176,1865,1961,15150,20,9919,3],"tags":[15605,15314,15320,15310,15319,15316,15312,15309,15322,15315,15313,15606,15318,15321,15311,15317,15326,15325,15327,15323,15324],"class_list":["post-39996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chandigarh","category-cover-story","category-delhi","category-haryana","category-himachal","category-india","category-politics","category-world","tag-complaint-sent-to-eci-against-haryana-state-election-commission-for-including-reserved-symbols-of-aap","tag-daily-top-10-punjabi-newspaper","tag-e-paper-punjab","tag-online-daily-punjabi-newspaper","tag-online-punjabi-epaper","tag-patiala-newspaper","tag-press-ki-takat-newspaper","tag-press-ki-taquat-e-paper","tag-presskitaquat-com-----","tag-punjab-news-epaper","tag-punjabi-top-newspaper","tag-sad-in-list-of-free-symbols-for-upcoming-municipal-polls","tag-today-punjab-epaper","tag-today-punjab-epaper-in-punjabi","tag-today-punjab-newspaper","tag-today-punjabi-epaper","tag-15326","tag-15325","tag-15327","tag-15323","tag-15324"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39997,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39996\/revisions\/39997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}