Notice to Stalin on election plea

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the DMK working President M.K. Stalin on a petition challenging the Madras High Court judgment upholding his election from Kolathur Assembly constituency in 2011.

A bench of Justices J. Chelameswar and S.A. Abdul Nazeer issued notice on the SLP filed by Saidai Duraisamy of AIADMK who was defeated in that election. The bench after hearing Counsel Jayant Muthu Raj posted the matter for final hearing in January 2018.

In his appeal Mr. Duraisamy said that in Kolathur Constituency, Main election Manager on behalf of Mr Stalin was the Mayor of Chennai City Municipal Corporation, Subramaniam. During that time, the Corporation of Chennai was also controlled by majority of DMK Councilors. Therefore considering the presence of Mayor of Chennai, Chennai Corporation officials deployed for election duty, the DMK party safely fielded him in Kolathur Constituency, so as to commit all the illegal acts to ensure Mr. Stalin’s success.

The appellant said that in the said election Mr. Stalin used his officials, his party men and money power in Kolathur Constituency during the time of election Campaign, after filing the nomination. Currencies were distributed rampantly to procure votes, voters were induced with a promise of providing material objects, official machineries were misused, money were spent more than the allotted amount, model code was violated, media under the control of his family were used to defame the character of the appellant.