With a broom as its symbol, the Aam Aadmi Party, a regional party in northern India, hopes to "clean the filth that has permeated India's government and legislature," it said in a 2013 statement.

The Samajwadi Party's bicycle symbol pictured on a flag during a 2017 rally. Assigned by the Electoral Commission of India, party symbols can be important campaigning tools.

Ever since independent India's first elections began in 1951, when less than one in five Indians could read, political parties have selected easy-to-identify symbols based on everyday items to ...

India offers hundreds of symbols for political parties. The flashlight, "lady farmer" and lotus blossom (Prime Minister Modi's party symbol) appear on voting machine ballots for elections this spring.