The Election Commission of India (ECI) officially granted the status of ‘recognised political party’ to Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena party.
The party made this announcement on social media platform X on Wednesday (January 22).
The party now has “glass tumbler” as the permanent official election symbol of the party, as reserved by the ECI.
The communication about the recognition was done via a letter on Tuesday, the Jana Sena party revealed.
“Jana Sena emerged as a recognised regional political party. The Election Commission has issued orders recognizing the glass symbol as a permanent symbol of Jana Sena Party, which created history with the historic victory achieved in the last elections. The struggle (of) Pawan Kalyan for over a decade culminated in the Jana Sena Party being acknowledged as a recognized political party,” it said in a statement posted on X.
This is a first for the Jana Sena Party. So far, it was only registered as a political party in Andhra Pradesh. Now 10 years after its inception in March 2014, it has the recognition as a state political party.
Jana Sena achieved this recognition by securing 100 per cent success in the recent elections: both Lok Sabha as well as the Assembly polls. It won all 21 state constituencies and the two Lok Sabha constituencies it contested.