Weird poll symbols prove beneficial for contestants

Weird poll symbols prove beneficial for contestants
Archit Watts
Tribune News Service

Khour, May 22
Politics is a weird game. May be that’s why the election symbols allotted to the candidates in the fray for the posts of sarpanch and panch are also weird. But, one thing is sure that the election symbols like road-roller, cylinder, jug, ring and fan are proving beneficial for candidates.

Though, a large number of contestants have been appealing to the election authorities to change their symbols, yet these kind of symbols are not only making them popular among the public, but these are easy for the voters, too, to keep it in mind.

In Khour block at Nrayana panchayat constituency, where one Raju Pahalwan got the election symbol of cylinder was seen upset with this symbol. “Wherever I go for campaigning, people not only ask me to arrange cylinder for them but they have also started calling me a cylinder,” Pahalwan said.

Similarly, in Taroti-Danwal panchayat constituency, where Master Hakikat Ram got the election symbol of ring said, “My election symbol is a ring, which is becoming costly day by day, as the price of gold is touching a new high. So, wherever I go people demand cheaper rings.”

Many others like him, who got the symbols like torch, fan and jug have echoed similar views, as these commodities are hardly available in this hot summer, especially when the temperature is touching almost 43 degree Celsius.

Rabinder Singh Binder from Nihapur Simbal-Lower panchayat, who is a contractor by profession, got road-roller as his election symbol, which proved beneficial for him to secure a thumping win.

Courtesy: The Tribune