Centre gets application for 'NaMo Tea Party' trademark

As BJP moves ahead with its ‘chai pe charcha’ initiative to amass support for its Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, efforts are underway by some of his supporters to actually register a trademark for ‘NaMo Tea Party’.

An application for registering ‘NaMo Tea Party’ as a trademark has been submitted to the government by a grouping with the same name. The ‘Chai pe Charcha’ (discussion over tea) campaign was first launched by BJP to counter a jibe made by a Congress leader at Narendra Modi (NaMo) for selling tea in his earlier years.

The trademark application has been filed by Ahmedabad- based Shailesh Tiwari, who calls himself convenor of ‘Namo Tea Party’ movement. When contacted, Tiwari said over phone that the logic behind the move to get ‘NaMo Tea Party’ trademark is to ensure that the idea is not taken by anyone else. There is no commercial motive behind the application, he added. “The sole motive is to get Narendra Modi elected as Prime Minister by propagating Gujarat development model,” he said.