August 2, 1951 – first electoral symbols announced by the ECI

  • All-India Forward Bloc (Marxist Group) – Standing Lion
  • All-India Forward Bloc (Ruikar Group) – Human Hand
  • Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha – Horse and Rider
  • Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party – Hut
  • Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad – Rising Sun
  • All-India Scheduled Castes’ Federation – Elephant

Next lot – August 17, 1951

  • Indian National Congress – Two bulls with yoke on
  • Socialist Party – Tree
  • Communist Party of India – Ears of corn and a sickle (In areas where the party had not been declared illegal)
  • Revolutionary Socialist Party – Spade and Stoker (In Assam, Bihar, Madras, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Travancore Cochin and Delhi)
  • Revolutionary Communist Party of India – Flaming torch (Mashal) (In Bombay, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal)

Another lot – September 7, 1951

  • Bolshevik Party of India – A Star
  • Krishikar Lok Party – A cultivator winnowing grain
  • All India Bharatiya Jan Sangh – Lamp (Deepa)

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