The Election Commission of India on Friday, April 5, 2024, gave an undertaking to the Madras High Court that it shall revisit an order passed on Thursday denying permission for an event to release a book on Tamil Nadu BJP president K. Annamalai in Coimbatore on Saturday.
Justice G Jayachandran was told by ECI counsel Niranjan Rajagopalan that the denial order passed by a Deputy Returning Officer in Coimbatore shall be revisited and a fresh order would be passed by 1.30 p.m. on Saturday since the event was scheduled only for 4 p.m.
The judge recorded his submission and disposed of a petition filed by event organiser S. Shre Dharmaarghavan, 26, of Puducherry. Representing the petitioner, senior counsel R. Sankaranarayanan, assisted by Ramaswamy Meyyappan, told the court that the event was meant for releasing a book titled ‘The idea called MALAI’ authored by Suresh Kumar.
