http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a149929.html
Poll panel asked to decide on complaint against BSP (Lead)
New Delhi, July 9
The Supreme Court Friday asked the Election Commission to decide on a
complaint that seeks the freezing of Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan
Samaj Party's elephant election symbol as erecting statues of
elephants and Chief Minister Mayawati in public places contravened the
poll panel's notification.
A bench of Chief Justice S.H.Kapadia, Justice K.S.Radhakrishnan and
Justice Swatanter Kumar said that the commission, after deciding on
the maintainability of the complaint, would place its decision before
the apex court.
Thereafter, the court will examine the decision and if required, more
powers will be given to the Election Commission for further action.
The poll panel has been given three months to decide on the complaint
made by advocate Ravi Kant.
The complainant alleged that the state government was spending huge
amounts of public money to erect statues of elephants and of Mayawati
all over the state.
Appearing for the Election Commission, senior counsel Ashok Desai told
the court that the BSP government in Uttar Pradesh was not
co-operating with it in completing the inquiry into the complaint, and
was asking under what authority the commission was seeking information
from it.
Desai said that initially the state government sought more time for
collecting information sought about the number of statues of elephants
and Mayawati installed in the state, but later made a U-turn, and
questioned the jurisdiction of the commission in seeking the
information.
He noted that the poll panel was conducting the inquiry on the apex
court's direction. "You passed an order and under that order we sought
more information" from the state government, Desai said.
At this, the court said: "First decide the issue (of maintainability
of the complaint) and if the decision is good and valid, then we would
empower you to seek more information" from the state government.
The apex court by its order of Feb 22 this year, had directed the
Election Commission decide whether the installation of the statues of
the BSP's symbol all over the state at the cost of the exchequer was
in contravention of the election law.
Last updated on Jul 9th, 2010 at 20:54 pm IST
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