The Praja Rajyam (PR) leadership has landed in a piquant situation as the EC has declined to reconsider the party’s request for allotment of a common symbol for the forthcoming elections to Assembly and Lok Sabha.
The PR is now exploring various options including sharing the election symbol of national party or a regional party of other States. But this may prove disastrous as it would “lose its identity” and would be forced to fight in the name of the party that agrees to give its symbol. Moreover, it would be forced to toe the line of the party which shares its symbol after the elections.
Senior PR leaders were unwilling to react to the development or as to what the party’s next course would be. The general refrain is “PR president Chiranjeevi has made his mark and the people are intelligent enough to recognise PR’s candidates irrespective of the symbol”.
When contacted, legal expert and PR’s Political Affairs Committee (PAC) member P. Shivshankar said they were studying the provisions of the X Schedule of the Constitution that dealt with instances relating to breaking up of two parties after contesting the elections together on a common symbol. Mr. Shivshankar said a concrete decision on moving the Supreme Court was yet to be taken.
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