MUMBAI: The Sharad Pawar-led NCP has approached the Election Commission of India, requesting it to remove the trumpet from the list of free symbols in the state. In a letter to the ECI on June 14, the party explained that the symbol had created confusion among voters in the recently held Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra, as the Marathi name …
The Election Commission of India allotted a new election symbol — tutari vajavnara manus — to the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party. Marathi movies produced since the 1950s and ’60s, for instance, liberally used the tutari to tell the story of Chhatrapati Shivaji and the history of Maratha conquests. In the last two decades, other political parties, …
