New Delhi, March 22: The Supreme Court today directed the Election Commission to club together and hear various applications filed by individuals seeking derecognition of the BSP’s election symbol “elephant” for its alleged misuse by the Mayawati government.
A bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice Deepak Verma passed the direction while dealing with the PIL filed by two advocates Ravi Kant and Sukumar accusing the UP government of misusing public money for installation of statues of the Dalit leaders, including Mayawati, and the party symbol elephant at various places in the state.
The PIL had sought a direction to restrain the Mayawati government from installing her statues and those of elephants at public places and demanded a CBI probe into the alleged misuse of public funds.
–Agencies