All of them missed the larger perspective. The facts of the matter are that some people had petitioned the Supreme Court to ask the UP government to stop the construction of statues of the chief minister and the elephants in public parks, at public expense. It was also demanded that the elephant, as the party’s symbol, should be frozen because these statues, in their hundreds, would be a permanent advertisement for the party at public expense, disturbing the level playing field among political parties. The Supreme Court referred the matter of the party symbol to the ECI.
