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Joining together, the expression 'joining together' in paragraph 16(1) is apparently used in its broad meaning. According to the Webster's New World Dictionary, 1962 Edn. Page 789 the word 'join' has these meanings. '(1) to place together, bring to-gether, connect, pass on, combine; (2) to make into one, unite; (3) to become a part or a member of; enter into association with; (4) to go to and combine with; (5) to enter into the company of' a company; (6) to go and take one's proper place in.' The word has evidently got several meanings. When it is used in the sense of 'combine', it may imply mingling together of things, often with a loss of distinction of elements that completely merge with one another, Ramashankar Kaushik v. Election Commission of India, AIR 1974 SC 445: (1974) 1 SCC 271. [Election Symbols (Reservations and Allot-ment Order, 1968, Para. 16(1)]

There is nothing in the context to restrict its meaning to a case of merger of two or more political parties and their resultant extinction on formation of a new political party. It will also embrace a case of two or more political parties agreeing to form a new political party while retaining their separate identity, Ramashankar Kaushik v. Election Commission of India, AIR 1974 SC 445: (1974) 1 SCC 271: (1974) 2 SCR 265.