Lok Sabha Elections 2024: An election image is a crucial asset for any political get together because it’s the one approach to symbolize a celebration on the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM). Besides its presence on the voting machine, an emblem additionally represents a celebration’s candidates and works as a model emblem for them.
Talking about election symbols of the 2 essential political parties — BJP and Congress — as the final elections are approaching, the saffron get together at the moment has ‘Lotus’ as its election image whereas the latter one is represented by the ‘Hand’ image. However, the symbols utilized by each parties at the moment had been adopted a couple of many years in the past and haven’t been there because the starting when these parties got here to existence. Let’s take a look at the election image historical past of each the Congress and BJP.
Congress image historical past
Congress image between 1952 and 1969
From the interval between 1952 and 1969, the Congress get together image was once ‘bullocks carrying a yoke’
However, in 1971, when Indira Gandhi was expelled from the get together, the election image of the Indian National Congress (R) was once a ‘cow with a sucking calf’.
But the previous faction of the Congress continued with the previous image which was ‘bullocks carrying a yoke’.
Once once more in 1977, when Indira Gandhi break up from the INC (R) and fashioned her personal faction Congress (I), the get together used the ‘Hand’ image for the very first time and has been utilizing it since then.
BJP election image historical past
Between 1951 and 1977, the election image of Bharatiya Jana Sangh (now Bharatiya Janata Party-BJP) was an ‘oil-lamp’ as its election image.
But in 1977, when Bharatiya Jana Sangh merged with different outfits to type Janata Party, it used to have a ‘farmer and plough’ image.
Three years later, when the Bharatiya Janata Party was fashioned after the Janata Party had dissolved, the saffron camp adopted Lotus as its image and since then, it has continued to symbolize the BJP.
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