Alarming notes from 4 of 10 seats: Why NCP (SP) wants solo rights to trumpet
The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar), which won eight of the 10 Lok Sabha seats it contested in the recent elections, believes it could have performed better but for the fact that the “tutari” (trumpet) – similar to its poll symbol – is part of the Election Commission’s (EC) list of free symbols, to be allotted to Independents or unregistered political parties.