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CJP – Animal Symbols
June 13 , 2026
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- The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is not a political party.
- Even if it registers and asks for the cockroach as its election symbol, the Election Commission is unlikely to allow it.
- The EC allots election symbols to parties and independent candidates as per the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968.
- The candidates are allotted to the reserved symbol of their respective parties.
- The EC allots symbols from a list of “free symbols”.
- The independent candidates & unrecognised parties can request their choice of symbol from the list, but they are not assured of getting the same.
- The EC list states that certain symbols can be allotted freely except in certain states and Union Territories.
- Different recognised parties in different states can use the same symbol, since there’s no rule against it, and they usually don’t compete.
- Following representations from animal welfare activists in the 1990s, the EC stopped allotting animals as election symbols.
- Some parties that received animal symbols before the ban continue to retain them.
- The most prominent example is the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which still uses the elephant as its reserved symbol.
- Sub-section 3 of section 123 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 lists what all are deemed to be corrupt practices for this Act.
- No symbol allotted under this Act to a candidate shall be deemed to be a religious symbol or a national symbol for this clause.
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