ForumIAS announcing GS Foundation Program for UPSC CSE 2025-26 from 19 April. Click Here for more information.
ForumIAS Answer Writing Focus Group (AWFG) for Mains 2024 commencing from 24th June 2024. The Entrance Test for the program will be held on 28th April 2024 at 9 AM. To know more about the program visit: https://forumias.com/blog/awfg2024
News:Candidates aspiring to contest upcoming assembly elections on the ticket of a political party are required to submit various documents and forms.The most important documents are Form A and Form B.
Facts:
About Forms:
- Form A and Form B denotes that a certain candidate has been approved by a political party and should be allotted the election symbol of that party.
- These two forms referred collectively as ‘AB Form’ prove that a political party has appointed a person in charge of distributing tickets and the candidate has obtained a ticket for a certain constituency from that person.
About Form A:
- This is a communication from a ‘recognised national or state political party’ or a ‘registered but unrecognised political party’ to the returning officer of the constituency or the chief election officer of the state.
- It conveys names of office-bearers of the party, who have been authorised to intimate names of the candidates chosen by the party to contest the polls.
About Form B:
- This is a communication from the authorised office-bearer of a political party (whose name is mentioned in Form A issued by the president or secretary of the party) to the returning officer of the constituency.
- This letter informs the returning officer about the name of the authorised candidate for the party who should be allotted the party symbol.
- The letter also contains a substitute name for allotment of the symbol and candidature.
