This election season keeps getting stranger. On Wednesday, in Nalasopara, the Palghar district election officials with the help of Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation removed a stall set up for selling autorickshaws for allegedly violating the election code of conduct. This was done because the stall happened to have the same colour and election symbol being used by a local Bahujan Vikhas Aghadi (BVA) leader. The owner of the stall has no ties with the candidate.

The symbol has been given to BVA candidate Baliram Jadhav. While his party has had a whistle as their election symbol for 30 years, they lost out on it this election as someone else claimed it first. Following that, Jadhav was given an autorickshaw as his symbol.