Minister for Youth Welfare and Sports Development Udhayanidhi Stalin has played a “fraud on the Constitution” by calling for the annihilation of Sanatana Dharma and hence a writ of quo warranto, calling upon him to explain under what authority is he continuing to hold the positions of Minister as well as a MLA, is fully maintainable, Senior Counsel T.V. Ramanujam argued before the Madras High Court on October 11.
Appearing before Justice Anita Sumanth, the Senior Counsel said, he was not predicating his case solely on the ground of the Minister having violated his oath of office but on the more important ground of a fraud having been played on the Constitution by speaking against a particular community. Hence, the writ petitioner T. Manohar was fully entitled to invoke Article 226 (writ jurisdiction of the High Court) of the Constitution, he contended.
The submission was made after Advocate General R. Shunmugasundaram representing the State government, Senior Counsel P. Wilson representing Mr. Udhayanidhi Stalin and N. Jothi representing Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments P.K. Sekarbabu in unison questioned the very maintainability of the three quo warranto petitions that had been filed against the two Ministers and also against DMK MP A. Raja.
