Can Sasikala faction use 'hat' symbol to file nomination: HC asks ECI

December 01, 2017 13:55

The Delhi High Court today asked the Election Commission of India whether the Sasikala-TTV Dinakaran faction of AIADMK can use the 'hat' symbol to file nominations for the upcoming by-poll to the R K Nagar assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu.

Justice S P Garg asked the poll panel's lawyer to take instructions and inform the court on this aspect at 2.30 pm today. The hat symbol was given to the Sasikala-TTV Dinakaran group by the ECI in March this year after it had frozen the use of the 'two-leaves' symbol, to which a group led by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister EK Palaniswami and O Panneerselvam had also laid claim.

The Palaniswami-Panneerselvam faction had at the same time been granted the 'electric pole' symbol. -- PTI

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