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Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) laminitis S. Ramadoss has filed a writ petition successful the Madras High Court urging it to quash a connection sent by the Election Commission of India (ECI) connected July 30, 2025, regarding the allotment of ‘mango’ symbol, to his lad Anbumani Ramadoss’ code successful Chennai.
The petition has been listed for proceeding earlier Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G. Arul Murugan connected February 2, 2026. It has urged the tribunal to quash the July 30 connection and nonstop the ECI to contented a caller connection to the enactment founder’s code successful Chennai.
The writ petition has, successful fact, been filed successful the sanction of PMK and states the enactment was being represented by its founder-cum-president Mr. Ramadoss. Filing an affidavit successful enactment of it, the laminitis stated his son’s 3 tenure arsenic enactment president ended connected May 28, 2025 itself.
The petitioner accused his lad of having played a fraud connected the ECI by submitting forged documents to assertion arsenic if helium continued to beryllium the enactment president. The petitioner said his lad could not marque specified claims connected the ground of amerciable enactment meetings conducted without the authorisation of the founder.
Claiming helium was the incumbent president of the party, the petitioner said, the ECI had taken a determination connected July 31, 2025 to allot the ‘mango’ awesome to PMK successful the Legislative Assembly elections held successful Bihar past twelvemonth and besides for the Assembly elections owed successful Tamil Nadu and Puducherry this year.
However, that connection had been wrongly sent to Mr. Anbumani’s Tilak Street code astatine T. Nagar successful Chennai though it ought to person been really sent to the enactment laminitis and incumbent president’s code astatine Nattu Muthu Naiken Street successful T. Nagar, the petitioner claimed.
The petitioner besides said, the Delhi High Court had precocious dealt with a lawsuit regarding the factional quality successful the enactment betwixt himself and his son. During the proceeding of the lawsuit connected December 14, 2025; the ECI counsel had submitted that the committee would frost the ‘mango’ awesome during the 2026 elections.
“As such, till day the Election Commission of India has not sent caller connection to the contiguous president Dr. S. Ramadoss to his bureau code oregon did not take to frost the awesome ‘mango’ arsenic the quality is made by a rival assertion by erstwhile president who has been removed from the rank of the enactment connected September 11, 2025,” the affidavit read.
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