The designer of the Aam Aadmi Party logo, Sunil Lal, has served a legal notice to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asking him to withdraw the symbol from all official work, including the website, failing which he would move court.
According to sources in the party, the logo has been changed and is not the same as what Lal had designed.
“If he has sent a legal notice then we will take up the matter. We can prove that the logo that was designed by him and what the party now uses are different,” said a party leader.
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The legal notice sent on June 22 asks Mr. Kejriwal to stop using the logo as that Mr. Lal’s ‘intellectual property’.
Mr Lal, an advertising professional who had been working with Kejriwal since the India Against Corruption movement, had previously sent a letter to the party convener in April asking him to withdraw the logo and even remove it from some places.
Mr. Lal also resigned from the party saying that the party wasn’t heading in the right direction.
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“I sent a notice to Mr. Kejriwal through my counsel Avinash Chandra asking him to stop using the logo designed by me from all works or else I will be left with no option but to approach court,” Mr. Lal told the media in Lucknow.