The Telangana High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the election authorities in a writ petition filed by Telangana Yuva Shakti party seeking a common symbol to all its candidates contesting in the ongoing Assembly elections.
A bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice N.V. Shravan Kumar, after hearing the contentions presented by the party president B. Ram Mohan Reddy appearing as party-in-person, issued notices to the Chief Election Commissioner and Secretary of the State Election Commission. The bench instructed them to respond to the notices by explaining the reasons for not allocating common symbols to the party candidates.
Mr. Reddy contended that his party represented to the election authorities to allot a common symbol to all its candidates contesting the ongoing Assembly polls. But they did not respond positively, he said. He informed the bench that he got the party registered in 2018. It was not a recognised party. The petitioner told the HC that the party submitted a petition to the Election Commission of India on October 20 to allot a common symbol to all its candidates. However, the ECI had not considered its representation, he said.
