The Madras High Court on Tuesday questioned the maintainability of a writ petition filed by S. Surya Moorthi, a member of the AIADMK, who had sought a direction to the Election Commission of India (EC) not to approve the resolutions passed at the party’s July 11 general council meeting in which former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami was elected interim general secretary and O. Panneerselvam was removed from the primary membership.
Acting Chief Justice M. Duraiswamy and Justice Sunder Mohan asked the petitioner, who argued in person, how he could file a writ petition when he had already moved a civil suit before the city civil court in connection with the same issue but could not obtain any favourable interim order. Senior counsel Vijay Narayan, representing Mr. Palaniswami, told the court that the EC, too, had no authority to approve or disapprove of the general council resolutions.
