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Renumbered by the Act No. 1 of 2021, S.9, w.e.f. 20.02.2020. 1[202. Symbols for elections under the Act - The State Election Commission shall by notification, specify the symbols that may be chosen by candidates contesting any election under this Act and the restrictions to which their choice shall be subject: Provided that the State Election Commission shall not in the case of elections to gram panchayats allot to any contesting candidate any symbol reserved for a recognised political party or a registered political party but in the case of elections to *[Mandal Praja Parishads] and *[Zilla Praja Parishads], the State Election Commission shall allot symbols including the symbols reserved for a recognised political party, or, as the case may be symbols if any, reserved for a registered political party where any candidate is set up by such political party.] 2[202A. Reservations to Backward Classes - For the purpose of reserving the offices of Sarpanch, President and *[Chairperson] and members of the Gram Panchayats, *[Mandal Praja Parishads] and *[Zilla Praja Parishads] to the members belonging to the backward classes under this Act, the population figures of the backward classes, gathered in the Socio-Economic Survey conducted by the Andhra Pradesh Backward Classes Co-operative Finance Corporation Limited, Hyderabad, shall be taken as the basis.] 3[202B. Voter Identity Cards - With a view to preventing personation of electors, provision may be made by rules made under this Act, for the production before the Presiding Officer of a polling station by every such elector, of his identity card before the delivery of a ballot paper or ballot papers to him, if under the rules made in that behalf under the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960 made under the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (Central Act 43 of 1950), electors of the Legislative Assembly Constituency or Constituencies in which the Gram Panchayat, *[Mandal Praja Parishad] Territorial Constituency or *[Zilla Praja Parishad] Territorial Constituency, as the case may be, is situated, have been supplied with identity cards with or without their respective photographs attached thereto.]