The Maharashtra State Election Commission has frozen bigul (trumpet) and tutari (a bugle-like instrument also called a turha) as poll symbols for the state assembly elections due this year at the ...

M onths before the Maharashtra assembly elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has provisionally authorised the Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar or NCP (SP) to accept ...

The party, led by its founder, had submitted two other names for consideration – ‘Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadrao Pawar’, and ‘NCP -- Sharad Pawar.’ Supreme Court Mumbai ...

Tutari, a trumpet-like instrument, allotted as symbol to little-known independent candidates in at least nine constituencies has led to vote division resulting in the loss of official NCP (SP ...

The Nationalist Congress Party - Sharadchandra Pawar on Friday shared the Election Commission order on the new party symbol on social media and quoted lines from Tutari, a poem written by Kusumagraj.

And when party candidate, Bhagyashree Atram, sought votes on the ‘tutari', many were confused. "We have to memorise new symbols. That's a tall order," said a local villager from Kondawahi, where ...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Bapusaheb Pathare, the first MLA of the Vadgaon Sheri Assembly constituency (2009-2014), is all set to join the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar ...