Hearing on pleas to live telecast counting today

The plea was filed by P Ananthan on Saturday, who is contesting for the post of Kallipattu village panchayat president. His plea would be taken up on December 30 by a vacation bench headed by Justice S Vaidyanathan.

The petitioner wanted the court to pass an order to ensure transparency and fairness in the counting process for the post of Kallipattu village panchayat president in Panruti taluk.He said, he had learnt from reliable sources that thelocal syndicate of ruling party has colluded with theelection officials to declare ruling party candidate as the elected candidate.

Even the Deputy Collector was attacked by the rulingparty cadre on December 21. The situation in the entire district has become worst. Utilising this, the ruling party is trying to declare all their party candidates as elected,” Ananthan alleged. I was threatened to withdraw my nomination. The ruling party men claimed that the winning candidate has already been decided, he further alleged. “I have also made representation to the Election Commission on December 21, he said.