In a setback for All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) interim common secretary Edappadi Okay Palaniswami (EPS), the Election Commission (EC) knowledgeable the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday that it can’t settle for the resolutions handed within the General Assembly on July 11 recognising EPS as the interim common secretary of AIADMK.

EPS had sought instructions to the EC to add the bye-laws of the AIADMK amended on July 11, 2022. “The aforesaid bye-laws dated 11.07.2022 were not taken on record by the Answering Respondent [EC] as the same is under challenge, including the manner and the process in which the amendments were passed in the said meeting, in a number of litigations and counter litigations,” the EC stated.

The EC doesn’t monitor or regulate inside get together features or inner elections in a political get together, the authority stated in its affidavit.

“The Answering Respondent does not regulate or monitor inner-party functions or internal elections of any political party as the same is neither envisaged under the Constitution of India nor under any other law,” it acknowledged.

“Only insofar as recognised political parties are concerned”, the Election Commission is remitted to be certain that “all recognized political parties report to it about the holding of their elections at prescribed intervals as provided in their respective party constitutions and that they also submit the list of office bearers elected at the Central level”, the affidavit added.

‘NO SYMBOL DISPUTE RAISED BY EITHER FACTIONS’

The ECI submitted that the litigating events by no means raised a dispute when it comes to paragraph 15 of the Election Symbols (Reservation & Allotment) Order, 1968 triggering any motion by the Answering Respondent beneath Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 learn with the Election Symbols (Reservation & Allotment) Order, 1968.

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