With the Election Commission (EC) expected give its verdict on which faction of the Samajwadi Party (SP) gets to own the cycle symbol Monday, leaders from both sides are keeping their fingers crossed.
Both sides claim that the judgment will be in their favour and have started campaigning for the upcoming Assembly polls, scheduled to begin from February 11, with the symbol.
“I have started campaigning with cycle symbol in my constituency,” said Ruchi Veera, MLA, from Bijnor, who figures in both Mulayam Singh’s and Akhilesh Yadav’s list, where the party won for the first time in the 2014 by-poll. “Elections here is in the second phase (February 15) and you can’t win elections without being present among the public.”
When asked what she thought of the row over the symbol and who it will finally go to, she said, “Symbols get popularised easily through media and other means and that will not be a major problem.”
