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Dinakaran cannot use pressure cooker symbol, says SC
March 28, 2018
The Supreme Court today kept in abeyance a Delhi High Court order asking
the Election Commission to consider allotting the 'pressure cooker'
poll symbol to the AIADMK faction led by TTV Dinakaran.
A
bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A M Khanwilkar
also asked the acting chief justice of Delhi High Court to set up a
two-judge bench to decide the main dispute between the two AIADMK
factions, led by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E K Palaniswamy and
Dinakaran, over their rival claims on the party and its 'two leaves'
symbol by April end.
The Delhi High Court had on March 9 directed the
poll panel to allot a common symbol, preferably that of 'pressure
cooker', and a name to the AIADMK (Amma) faction led by Dinakaran. PTI
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