Supreme Court's Deadline To Poll Body To Settle Trinamool Poll Symbol Issue
The Supreme Court of India has ordered the Election Commission to resolve the Trinamool Congress party symbol dispute within three months. The conflict involves rival factions claiming the 'twin flowers' symbol following a party split.
Why it matters
This is a critical legal intervention in internal party politics that will determine the branding and electoral identity of the factions involved.
The Supreme Court has set a deadline for the Election Commission to take a call on the ongoing dispute regarding the name of Trinamool Congress and its twin flowers election symbol. The Commission has three months to settle the matter permanently, the judges said, over-ruling its objection that it is too short a time. The top court's order came in response to a petition by Bengal's former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who challenged the poll commission's decision to freeze the party symbol.After the split in the party following the assembly polls, the rival factions have both claimed the twin-flower symbol, arguing they are the real Trinamool in a reprise of the dispute over the symbols of Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party.On September 17, the Election Commission decided to freeze the symbol for now and give both factions a new symbol for the coming by-polls in two assembly constituencies including…
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