By Gopal Ethiraj, Chennai
CHENNAI, 18 September (asiantribune.com): The election petition, challenging the victory of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, from Sivaganga constituency in the Parliament Elections held in May last, is yet to be numbered, due to silence on the part of the petitioner and the defeated candidate S Raja Kannappan. It has raised eye brows in the AIADMK as well as in other circles.
The election petition rules says the petitioner should file his affidavit papers personally appearing before the High Court Registrar General and also for corrections. In July Kannappan appeared before the registry and filed his paper. After going through his affidavit, the registry found some fault and intimated Kannappan to come in person and correct the mistakes.
More than two months have lapsed, Kannappan is yet to turn up to the registry and make corrections. With the petition still remaining unnumbered, Kannappan’s lack of interest is quite surprising, especially after being so fast in filing the election petition, claiming he was leading in several rounds, seeking recount of votes, his objection to the results went unheeded, etc.
Kannappan had submitted in his petition that in the last round of counting, he was leading with 3555 votes and all of a sudden the Returning Officer had announced Chidambaram won the elections with a margin of 3354 votes. His objection was not accepted
There were seven election petitions filed in the high court after the Lok Sabha elections, including one from Puducherry. The election petitions filed against Union Fertilizer Minister M K Alagiri, former minister T R Balu, small-time film artiste J K Ritheesh and Kumar of AIADMK, elected from Madurai, Sriperumbudur, Ramanathapuram and Tiruchy respectively have been numbered after being admitted by the concerned judges, in the Madras High Court and issued notices. The other two petitions are in the process of getting admitted.
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