Varied symbols for political parties in AP

Besides four popular symbols like bicycle, hand, lotus and car, there are about 82 election symbols allotted to the candidates for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh.

The 'bicycle', a mode of transport for majority of the common people, is the symbol of the ruling TDP while the Congress, the main opposition party, has its recognised symbol 'hand' and BJP's symbol is 'lotus'.

Aspiring to make inroads into the Telangana region, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), led by former deputy speaker of the state Assembly K Chandrasekhar Rao, who formed the party after quitting the TDP, has been allotted the 'car' symbol.

Another popular symbol, 'kite', has been allotted to Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), whose former floor leader Asaduddin Owaisi is making an all out effort to fly high his kite in the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency.

Independents contesting the Assembly and Parliamentary elections have been allotted various attractive symbols. While a candidate was allotted an 'ice cream', another was allotted the 'coconut' as his symbol.

Other symbols allotted by the Election Commission include TV, bangles, necklace, ceiling fan, bridge, candles, book, cap, hat, slate, ring, banana, cot, bat, bell, balloon, bread, ladder, spoon, electric pole, rising sun and lion.