Parties fight over political symbols

March 28, 2012 14:49

When voters turn out for municipal polls in the Indian capital next month, they may be confronted with a bewildering gallery of household items: possibly a cauliflower, nail clippers, a TV antenna and a calculator.

Ever since independent India's first elections began in 1951, when less than one in five Indians could read, political parties have selected easy-to-identify symbols based on everyday items to appear next to candidates' names at the ballot box.

Tripti Lahiri on the WSJ. Read

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