PART VII EXTRAORDINARY
No.27 AMARAVATI, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2025 G.374 NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT
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ANDHRA PRADESH STATE ELECTION COMMISSION 1st Floor, New HODs Building, Opp Indira Gandhi Municipal Stadium, M.G. Road, Vijayawada-520010
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No.39/SEC-L/2025 Date: 30.07.2025 1. The President, REFORMS PARTY OF INDIA made an application to the A.P. State Election Commission for registration of "REFORMS PARTY OF INDIA" as a political party under the provisions of the Registration of Political Parties and Allotment of Symbols Order, 2001 issued by the APSEC.
2. The A.P. State Election Commission set in motion the process of registration of "REFORMS PARTY OF INDIA" as per the provisions of the Registration of Political Parties and Allotment of Symbols Order, 2001 giving a public notice by the applicant calling for objections, if any, from the general public for registration of the said party. The notice was published by the applicant in daily news papers of 'The Times of India' on 01.06.2025 and 'Sakshi' on 01.06.2025. The notice was also published in the extraordinary issue of A.P. Gazette vide Gazette No. No.19, dated 05.06.2025.
3. No objections were received by the A.P. State Election Commission from any quarter for the proposed registration of "REFORMS PARTY OF INDIA" as a political party in response to 4. Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred under Article 243K of the Constitution of India and Paragraph 3 in Part II of the Registration of Political Parties and Allotment of Symbols Order, 2001, the A.P. State Election Commission, hereby, registers the "REFORMS PARTY OF INDIA" as a political party without a reserved symbol.
5. The registration shall not entitle the party for reservation of any exclusive symbol for it.
However, the candidates duly set up by the said party in local body elections held on party basis will be entitled to preferential treatment over the independent candidates in allotment of free symbols under Paragraph 5A(a) in Part-III of the Registration of Political Parties and Allotment of Symbols Order, 2001.
6. Under Paragraph 3(9)(a) in Part-II of the Registration of Political Parties and Allotment of Symbols Order, 2001, the party shall communicate to the A.P. State Election Commission, without delay, any change in its name, head office, office bearers, address or in any other material information duly following the procedure laid down in the said Order.
7. It is also informed that the APSEC, while registering a political party, does not approve the flags of political parties, and if the party has a flag, it shall be the own responsibility of the party to ensure that the flag does not violate the provisions of the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950 or the Flag Code of India or any other relevant law related to the subject, and that its flag does not imitate in any manner the flag of any other political party.
Vijayawada, Nilam Sawhney
30.07.2025. State Election Commissioner
Andhra Pradesh.
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