The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted four weeks to the Union government to state its stand on a petition for de-registering political parties having names with “caste, religious, ethnic or linguistic” connotations and flags that resemble the National Flag.
A Bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad granted was told that in spite of issuance of notice on the petition in 2019, the Centre was yet to file a reply.
The court also asked the counsel for the Election Commission of India, which has already filed a response to the petition by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, to seek further instructions on the matter.
