‘Tutari comes to shake Delhi’s throne’: Sharad Pawar’s NCP gets new poll symbol
Party spokesperson Clyde Crasto said the NCP (Sharad Pawar) candidates will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on this symbol.
Lok Sabha polls: The Sharad Pawar-led faction of the NCP on Thursday was allotted “man-blowing turha (a traditional trumpet)” as the party’s new symbol. The symbol was awarded to the Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), following a formal request from the party.
Party spokesperson Clyde Crasto said the NCP (Sharad Pawar) candidates will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on this symbol.
‘Man blowing turha’ is the new symbol of NCP-Sharadchandra Pawar, the ECI said in its order.
The turha, a man blowing a trumpet-like instrument, also called ‘tutari’ in Marathi, is sounded to mark the entrance of important people ranging from kings of the past to political leaders in modern times.
‘Tutari’ comes to shake Delhi
The Sharad Pawar faction quoted lines from a popular poem ‘Tutari’ written by Jnanpith awardee Kusumagraj.
“The Tutari in the form of great courage of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj had once stunned the Emperor of Delhi. It is a great honor for our party to have Tutari (Man Blowing Turha) as a symbol for the upcoming elections. Our Tutari is now ready to shake the throne of Delhi under the leadership of Sharadchandra Pawar,” the party said in a post on X.
The Sharad Pawar-founded NCP split in July last year after Ajit Pawar and eight other MLAs left the party and joined the Eknath Shinde government.
The ECI later gave the party name and ‘bell’ symbol to the faction led by Deputy CM Ajit Pawar.
‘Party wrongly ripped away from its founder’: Sule
Reacting to the development, NCP leader and Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule on Monday alleged that the party’s original symbol should be returned and that it was “wrong” how the party was “snatched” from its founder.
“The way the party has been torn away from its founding member is very wrong. We must get our party back and sign (symbol)…There is democracy in the country, and this is wrong,” Sule said while speaking to reporters.
On the Supreme Court notice on a plea filed by NCP – Sharadchandra Pawar chief Sharad Pawar, party leader Jitendra Awhad said, “I am very happy that the Supreme Court was very clear that they wanted to defend and protect the democratic values in this country… tenth The scheme clearly says that you cannot have an independent identity until you merge with a political party.”
Awhad alleged that the Ajit Pawar faction wants to ‘destroy and demolish’ Sharad Pawar and uproot the veteran politician from Maharashtra politics.
The Apex Court on Monday ruled that the ECI’s interim order allowing veteran leader Sharad Pawar to use the name ‘Nationalist Congress Party – Sharad Chandra Pawar’ would remain in force until further orders.
(With input from agencies)