The Commission had filed an application in the Madras High Court against its oral observation and said that media reports of the Court’s oral comments had caused grave prejudice to it.
Nearly 44,000 stations would have such monitoring, covering at least 50% booths across the state. The Commission said the identification of critical and vulnerable polling booths has been done after consulting 12 major political parties.
The BJP's election symbol is India's national symbol Lotus and therefore, it should be banned from confiscation and misuse. The Court has allowed the petitioner to make any other political party as a party in the Petition.