New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed an order of the Delhi high court allowing leader of the unrecognized faction of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) T.T.V. Dhinakaran to use a common poll symbol, preferably “pressure cooker”, and a suitable party name.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra asked the acting chief justice of the Delhi high court, justice Gita Mittal, to constitute a division bench to decide the matter before April-end.
On 9 March, justice Rekha Pilla of the Delhi high court had allowed Dhinakaran’s plea for a common poll symbol and directed the Election Commission to do the needful within three weeks.
Dhinakaran had moved the Delhi high court on 24 January, seeking permission to function under a different party name and symbol till the dispute over the use of AIADMK’s name and “two-leaves” party symbol between the two AIADMK factions is decided by the court.
The permission to use a different name and symbol was sought for Tamil Nadu local body elections that are expected to be notified soon, without prejudicing Dhinakaran’s claim over the “two-leaves” symbol and the AIADMK party name.