NEW DELHI: The Election Commission (EC) on Friday reserved its verdict on the demand for 'cycle' symbol by the two warring factions of the Samajwadi Party, and is expected to announce its decision on Monday.

"The commission reserved its order on Friday and it will decide on the party’s election symbol on Monday," Gauri Neo Rampal, lawyer of Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav said after a hearing at the Election Commission. The Commission declined to make any comments now, she said.

Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav have been asserting their respective claims over the party's election symbol ‘cycle’.

Mulayam Singh has been insisting on his right to the symbol being the party founder and also its "present president". Akhilesh was appointed the "President" of the party at an "emergency national convention" called on January 1 in Lucknow. The meeting was convened by Akhilesh's confidante and Rajya Sabha member Ram Gopal Yadav.

The Akhilesh-led faction has been claiming ownership to the symbol, saying that it enjoyed the support of the majority of the party's members of Parliament and the legislators.

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