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Chennai: The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court on Friday ordered the Election Commission to dispose of the issues relating to the ruling AIADMK before 31 October, a former parliamentarian of the party said.
“Hearing a petition, the court ordered the Election Commission to decide on all the issues relating to AIADMK before 31 October, 2017. I had impleaded as a party to a petition filed by another person,” KC Palanisamy, former AIADMK parliamentarian, told IANS.
Following the death of AIADMK general secretary and chief minister J Jayalalithaa, the party split into three factions.
The Election Commission has frozen the party’s ’two leaves’ symbol due to competing claims for it.
Recently two factions, led by Chief Minister K Palaniswamy and former chief minister O Panneerselvam, merged.
The merged faction then ousted the leaders of the third faction - general secretary VK Sasikala and deputy general secretary TTV Dhinakaran.
The merged faction has made a fresh petition to the Election Commission in the wake of the recent developments while Dhinakaran is also claiming the ’two leaves’ symbol for his faction.
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