Don't proceed on pleas against EPS's party post: ECI told

THE Madras High Court has restrained the Election Commission of India (ECI) from proceeding on the representations filed by two former MPs and a few others demanding the commission to not recognise the election of Edappadi K Palaniswami as the general secretary of AIADMK.

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @Chennai

A division bench of Justices R Subramanian and C Kumarappan passed the interim orders on Thursday on the petitions filed by EPS praying for the court to quash the notices sent to him and stay the proceedings initiated by the ECI based on the representations it received from ex-MPs P Ravindranath and KC Palanisamy besides V Pugazhendi, B Ramkumar Adityan, P Gandhi and MG Ramachandran.

The bench questioned the rationale behind the ECI to proceed on the matter when civil suits challenging the AIADMK's organisational polls were still pending.