Elections 2024: Another party in race to get “Bat” symbol

ISLAMABAD: Following the Supreme Court’s (SC) landmark verdict that stripped PTI of its iconic electoral symbol, Hum Awam Pakistan Party (HAPP) has once again approached the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and sought “bat” for the General Elections 2024, ARY News reported.

The Hum Awam Pakistan Party has submitted another application to the electoral watchdog and requested it to allot the party “Bat” as its electoral symbol as the apex court announced the verdict on the matter.

In the fresh application, the Hum Awam Pakistan Party maintained that earlier it was denied the “Bat” symbol by the ECP as the case was sub-judice before the Peshawar High Court (PHC) and then the Supreme Court.

“Now the matter has been settled as the apex court upheld the ECP verdict, the Hum Awam Pakistan Party should be allotted the Bat symbol,” the party requested.

In December 2023, the Hum Awam Pakistan Party approached the ECP and sought electoral symbol of “Bat”. The party’s Additional Secretary Ahmed Zaman Khan maintained that their election symbol was “Lock” but it was revoked by the ECP for not submitting the declarations.

Ahmar Zaman said his party was the first to ask for the “Bat” symbol, demanding that it should be allotted the same.

Read More: PTI loses “bat” as SC declares PHC verdict ‘null and void’

Earlier on Saturday, the PTI lost “Bat” as an election symbol after the apex court declared the PHC verdict null and void.

Announcing the verdict reserved earlier, the three-judge bench of Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Justice Musarrat Hilali ruled that the PTI failed to present evidence of holding transparent intra-party elections as all political parties are bound to hold free and fair intra-party elections.