New Delhi: Election Commission (EC) has called rival factions of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) for a hearing on Oct 30, the first after they were barred from using the party symbol for Bengal bypolls, officials said on Friday.In its interim order on Sept 17, the commission, after hearing representatives of Mamata Banerjee and Ritabrata Banerjee factions, directed that the matter required substantive determination by the poll body under provisions of Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968.EC then ordered them not to use the party name and “flowers and grass” symbol during the Bengal bypolls. Later, it allotted them fresh symbols and names to contest the bypolls. PTI
