One may associate the ‘Hand’ symbol to the Congress.
But in the first general elections, the symbol was allotted to the All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar Group), a national party then.
The Congress got ‘Two bullocks with a yoke on’. It was only in the 1977 elections that the Congress got the ‘Hand’ symbol and that too after a split.
In 1962 polls, the symbol was allotted to the Akali Dal.
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