'Prarajyam' moves HC for common symbol

Hyderabad Feb 5 :The Prajarajyam Party filed a petition in the A P High Court on Wednesday seeking a direction to the Election Commission of India to allot Rail Engine as party’s common symbol for the purpose of contesting in the ensuing general elections in the state.m Allu Aravind, the party’s general secretary filed this petition finding fault with the decision of the commission which rejected its plea to allot a common symbol earlier. He cited the example of TRS political party which was given a common symbol by the election commission in 2004 and sought a similar treatment for PRP also.

In a country where majority of the voters are either illiterate or semi-literate, the essentiality of a common symbol to all the candidates of a political party irrespective of whether it is recognised or registered, is indispensable, Aravind said in his petition.

In fact the number of members who joined our party within a short span of time eversince its launch is more than 50 lakh and the cream of leadership from various political parties too have joined us and this is definitely more than the 6 per cent votes required for allotting a common symbol, he said. Maintaining that there is no rationale in the stand taken by the EC, the PRP general secretary wanted the court to declare the rejection order of EC as illegal because it is vitiated by patent errors of law and jurisdiction.