{"id":5327,"date":"2019-04-28T11:11:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T05:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=5327"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:32","slug":"opposition-alleges-bjp-written-below-party-symbol-can-be-seen-on-evms-moves-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/opposition-alleges-bjp-written-below-party-symbol-can-be-seen-on-evms-moves-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition alleges \u201cBJP\u201d written below party symbol can be seen on EVMs, moves EC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Opposition on Saturday complained to the Election Commission that the Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s name is appearing under its symbol \u2013 the lotus \u2013 in electronic voting machines. The EC was asked to take necessary action.<\/p>\n<p>A delegation of leaders including the Congress\u2019 Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Dinesh Trivedi and Derek O\u2019Brien from the Trinamool Congress called on Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and told him that either the BJP\u2019s name should be removed, or names of other political parties contesting should be added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo party can use the symbol and name together,\u201d said Singhvi. The Trinamool Congress has alleged that the lotus symbol has broken lines below its stem and had been smudged in such a manner that the \u201cBJP\u201d could be easily read.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/opposition-claims-bjp-written-under-lotus-symbol-on-evms-seeks-action-2029644?pfrom=home-topscroll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">NDTV<\/span> <\/a>quoted a senior EC official who said that it was not BJP written below the lotus, but the outline of their symbol. Apparently, the BJP had approached the EC requesting them in 2013 to make the outside of the lotus bolder. The report also quoted EC sources saying the EVMs will not be changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No party can use the symbol and name together, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":5328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5327"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=5327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}