The court upholds the right to symbol allotment under the relevant electoral statutes while ensuring procedural compliance.

JUDGMENT

The limited relief sought for by the petitioner is for a direction to allot the symbol “Chair” to the party led by the petitioner, as per the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order , 1968 and Section 29A of the Representation of People’s Act , 1988.

2. The learned Standing Counsel for the 2^nd respondent submitted that the petitioner has filed three separate applications, claiming two different symbols. It was submitted that in the first application, petitioner claimed the symbol “Chair”, while in the second application he claimed the symbol “Television” and in the third application he claimed “Chair” again. Certain defects were also pointed out in some of the applications filed by the petitioner. Irrespective of the above, it was submitted that appropriate orders will be passed by the 2^nd respondent within a period of two weeks.

3. Having heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, the learned DSGI, the learned Standing Counsel for the 2^nd respondent and the learned Standing Counsel for the 3^rd respondent, I am of the view that this writ petition can be disposed of on the basis of the submission made on behalf of the 2^nd respondent.

Since the 2^nd respondent has submitted that the orders on petitioner’s applications filed as Ext.P3, Ext.P6 and Ext.P7 will be issued within a period of two weeks, there will be a direction that appropriate orders, as submitted before this Court, shall be passed within an outer time limit of two weeks. Needless to mention, if any defect has been pointed out and the same has not been cured, it is open to the petitioner to rectify the same before the time limit mentioned above, to enable the 2^nd respondent to pass appropriate orders.

The writ petition is disposed of as above.

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