{"id":89853,"date":"2019-10-07T16:16:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T10:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10702"},"modified":"2019-10-07T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T10:46:14","slug":"explained-what-are-a-b-forms-why-they-are-crucial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-are-a-b-forms-why-they-are-crucial\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What are \u2018A, B\u2019 forms &#038; why they are crucial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>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.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Forms:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>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.<\/li><li>These two forms referred collectively as \u2018AB Form\u2019 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.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Form A:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This is a communication from a \u2018recognised national or state political party\u2019 or a \u2018registered but unrecognised political party\u2019 to the returning officer of the constituency or the chief election officer of the state.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Form B:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>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.<\/li><li>This letter informs the returning officer about the name of the authorised candidate for the party who should be allotted the party symbol.<\/li><li>The letter also contains a substitute name for allotment of the symbol and candidature.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-are-a-b-forms-why-they-are-crucial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What are \u2018A, B\u2019 forms &#038; why they are crucial<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1234],"tags":[6166,7229,7230],"class_list":["post-89853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-election-commission","tag-form-a","tag-form-b","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704741615},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}