Tamil Nadu BJP president Ok. Annamalai. File picture
| Photograph Credit score: The Hindu
The Election Fee of India on Friday, April 5, 2024, gave an enterprise to the Madras Excessive Courtroom that it shall revisit an order handed on Thursday denying permission for an occasion to launch a e book on Tamil Nadu BJP president Ok. Annamalai in Coimbatore on Saturday.
Justice G Jayachandran was advised by ECI counsel Niranjan Rajagopalan that the denial order handed by a Deputy Returning Officer in Coimbatore shall be revisited and a recent order could be handed by 1.30 p.m. on Saturday for the reason that occasion was scheduled just for 4 p.m.
The choose recorded his submission and disposed of a petition filed by occasion organiser S. Shre Dharmaarghavan, 26, of Puducherry. Representing the petitioner, senior counsel R. Sankaranarayanan, assisted by Ramaswamy Meyyappan, advised the courtroom that the occasion was meant for releasing a e book titled ‘The thought referred to as MALAI’ authored by Suresh Kumar.
Aside from the e book launch, a discussion board dialogue had additionally been deliberate on the subject ‘Professionals in Politics’ and the addresses included these of Mr. Annamalai and others.
Although it was a easy indoor occasion meant just for the invitees to the venue at Uppilipalayam, the election officers refused permission solely on the premise of an opposed police report, the senior counsel mentioned, contending that the police had unnecessarily feared disturbance to legislation and order.
In the course of the course of listening to, Justice Jayachandran requested an Further Public Prosecutor to advise the police to be not inflexible whereas granting permission even for such easy indoor occasions. “If the police can’t present safety even for a e book launch occasion, then what’s the function of their existence?” he requested.
