Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni MLA Udhayanidhi Stalin has filed an application in the Madras High Court to reject an election petition preferred against his victory in the 2021 Assembly elections. He has claimed that the petition filed by R. Premalatha, a voter from Chintadripet, was bereft of material particulars.
When the application was listed before Justice V. Bharathidasan on Wednesday, senior counsel N.R. Elango appeared for the MLA. Advocate K. Sakthivel, representing the election petitioner, said he had filed a counter to the MLA’s plea for rejecting the application but it was returned due to a minor error.
The High Court Registry had returned the counter since it had been titled as reply and not counter, the judge was told. Therefore, he directed the counsel to re-present the counter after rectifying the error and decided to commence hearing arguments on the MLA’s application on March 25.
