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People intelligent to differentiate between car & road roller SC refuses plea by Bharat Rashtra Samithi

By LAWSTREET NEWS NETWORK      20 October, 2023 08:29 PM      0 Comments
People intelligent to differentiate between car & road roller SC refuses plea by Bharat Rashtra Samithi

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to consider a plea by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) for direction to Election Commission not to grant car-like symbols from its free symbols in the assembly election scheduled in Telangana.

A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal rejected a contention by the petitioner that election symbols like road roller should not be granted to any candidate as it would create confusion with its symbol of car.

The bench said that Indian voters are intelligent enough to differentiate between a car and a road roller.

BRS claimed the EC allotted the symbols which are deceptively similar and look alike of ‘car’, i.e. the symbol of the petitioner's political party to Yuga Thulasi Party and Alliance of Democratic Reforms Party.

The poll panel rejected the representations made by the petitioner in a decision which is biased, arbitrary, discriminatory, in violation of the principles of natural justice and also in violation of the fundamental rights of the candidates nominated by the petitioner, the plea claimed.

It contended the EC's move would cause serious prejudice to the political party which is contrary to the rule of law warranting interference of this court.

The plea also contended that BRS has been allotted the election symbol of "car" for more than two decades which is in continuous operation by it in all elections.

It claimed there has made a deceitful attempt in allotting the road roller symbol to "Yuga Thulasi Party" and the Chapati roller symbol to "Alliance of Democratic Reforms Party".

The plea emphasised that these symbols are deceptively similar and look like symbols of "car" by which the rights of the candidates nominated by the petitioner are taken away resulting them to suffer irreparable loss and injury.

The plea said symbols similar to a car will confuse voters in choosing and recognising the symbol of 'car’ on the EVM machines as the size of the symbol would be lesser than the size of a postal stamp when it is found on the EVM machine.

“The fundamental rights of the voters of the State of Telangana are hijacked by the unscrupulous political parties to gain undue advantage through fraudulent means by setting up independent candidates choosing deceptively similar and look alike symbols of ‘car’," the plea said.



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