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India: Akhilesh Yadav Wins Right to Use Bicycle as Election Symbol | The New York Times

India’s election commission on Monday resolved a feud that had split one of the country’s most powerful political dynasties, by granting the politician Akhilesh Yadav his party’s most recognizable asset: the image of a bicycle. In a democracy that is home to 287 million illiterate people, the simple party symbols that appear on ballots often…

India: Election Commission to Decide Fate of ‘Cycle’ Symbol | News 18

The Election Commission is expected to announce on Monday its decision on the demand for ‘cycle’ symbol by the two warring factions of the Samajwadi Party. The EC, after hearing both the sides on Friday, had reserved its verdict on the issue. Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav have been asserting their respective claims over the party’s election symbol ‘cycle’.