The Election Fee of India instructed the Bombay Excessive Court docket on Monday that the ‘whistle’ image can be allotted to Hitendra Thakur-led Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (BVA) for the upcoming Maharashtra meeting polls following requisite pointers.
The ECI in January this 12 months allotted the ‘whistle’ image to the Janata Dal (United). A BVA candidate contested the 2024 common polls on the ‘whistle’ image from Maharashtra’s Palghar Lok Sabha seat because the JD(U) didn’t have a candidate.
A division bench of Justices Somasekhar Sundaresan and Arif Physician was on Monday listening to a petition by the BVA for allotting the image to the social gathering.
Throughout the listening to earlier than the court docket, the ECI submitted a letter obtained from the JD(U) informing the ballot physique about its resolution to not contest the November 20 Maharashtra meeting elections.
Thus, the social gathering was surrendering the ‘whistle’ image allotted to it by advantage of an order dated January 30, 2024, the JD(U) mentioned within the letter.
The ECI instructed the court docket that because the petitioner (BVA) had utilized for the ‘whistle’ image, the identical can be allotted to the social gathering “by following the process laid down within the requisite guidelines/pointers”.
Following the ballot physique’s submission, the bench disposed of BVA’s petition.
