Days after the Election Commission awarded the NCP name and ‘clock’ symbol to the Ajit Pawar faction, a new symbol has been allotted to the camp led by the party’s founder Sharad Pawar. The symbol given to the Nationalist Congress Party (Shardchandra Pawar) is called ‘man blowing turha’.
The ‘turha’ is a traditional trumpet and is also known as ‘tutari’. “The Tutari in the form of great valour of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj had once deafened the emperor of Delhi. It is a great honour for our party to get Tutari (Man Blowing Turha) as our symbol for upcoming elections. Our Tutari is now ready to shake Delhi’s throne under the leadership of Sharadchandra Pawar,” NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) said in a post on X.
The Election Commission’s order in favour of the Ajit Pawar-led faction had been given on February 6 and, on Monday, the Supreme Court had said that the name given to the Sharad Pawar camp would continue till further orders.
Hearing a petition by the Sharad Pawar camp against the February 6 order, the bench had given the NCP founder liberty to approach the Election Commission for the symbol. It had also directed the poll panel to allot the symbol within a week of the Sharad Pawar group applying for it.