The National Conference (NC) on August 22 received a major relief from the Supreme Court which refused to stay the Jammu and Kashmir High Court orders on allotment of the party symbol, plough, for the coming Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council-Kargil elections.
“The Ladakh administration tried to get the High Court order stayed. It tried to get the contempt proceedings stayed, this was also refused by the Supreme Court. If the order to allot us our symbol is not issued by this evening the contempt order of the High Court will prevail,” NC leader Tanvir Sadiq told The Hindu.
The NC approached the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court after the election authority of Ladakh refused to grant the party its symbol for the polls scheduled for September 10. The Ladakh administration argued that the election authority of the Union Territory was not a competent body to grant symbols to parties. However, the NC pleaded before the High Court that the same authority “granted the Aam Aadmi Party its symbol for the 2010 polls in Leh”.
