India, Jan. 9 -- The Delhi high court on Friday dismissed a plea challenging the constitutionality of the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968, on the grounds that it discriminates between recognised and unrecognised political parties and questions the Election Commission of India's power to frame the order.

A bench of justices Nitin Sambre and Anish Dayal said that the petitioner - the Hind Samrajya Party (HSP) - was trying to re-agitate issues that had already been settled.

The HSP, which was registered with the ECI in October 2018, sought to strike down the provisions on the ground that all political parties registered with the ECI form a single class and that their sub-classification as national and state parties...