The Supreme Court will on Friday hear sidelined AIADMK leader TTV Dinakaran’s plea to extend the deadline for settling the dispute over the party’s ‘two leaves’ electoral symbol.
Dinakaran approached the top court on Friday, a day after the Madras High Court turned down his plea to extend its October 31 deadline to February 28 next year.
Justices M Venugopal and Abdul Quddhose of the Madurai bench had said the High Court had set the deadline as it felt that a time-frame should be fixed for disposal of the dispute. It had accordingly directed the Election Commission (EC) to dispose it of before October 31 this year, the bench had observed. The poll panel begins hearing the case on Friday.
The symbol was frozen by the Election Commission in March after the O Panneerselvam camp and the E Palaniswami camp, which have now merged, staked claim to it.
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