Madurai: After a series of legal conflicts over the issue of allocation of party symbol, sidelined AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran will on Thursday propose his own political party and disclose the flag at Melur in Madurai district. The Delhi High Court had on March 09 permitted Dhinakaran’s plea for allotment of a common symbol, preferably ‘pressure cooker’, and a name of his choice for the AIADMK group which leads by him.

The court order had appeared on an interim request filed by the Dhinakaran-VK Sasikala group in their main petition challenging the Election Commission’s November 23 order in 2017, which had allotted ‘two leaves’ symbol to the group headed by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and his Deputy O Panneerselvam.

Dhinakaran, who registered win in the RK Nagar Assembly by-poll, held in December 2017 as an independent candidate on the ‘pressure cooker’ symbol, had earlier requested the court that he needed a temporary name and symbol for his group to interact with the electorate in the prospect of elections to local bodies or any other polls. The by-poll was required by the death of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa who was hospitalized and died on 5 December 2016.

Dhinakaran urged to his supporters and the public to participate in the launch event in great numbers.

(With PTI inputs)