<p>In 1951, when the Election Commission sat down to decide on symbols before the 1951 elections, one thing was clear: the symbols should be familiar and illiterate voters should<br />be able to easily recognise them.</p>.<p>It didn’t want any object that had any religious or sentimental association as party symbols. So cow, temple, national flag and spinning wheel were out of the list.</p>
<p>In 1951, when the Election Commission sat down to decide on symbols before the 1951 elections, one thing was clear: the symbols should be familiar and illiterate voters should<br />be able to easily recognise them.</p>.<p>It didn’t want any object that had any religious or sentimental association as party symbols. So cow, temple, national flag and spinning wheel were out of the list.</p>
