While the rural bodies in the state of Tamil Nadu had gone through the first phase of local body polls on Friday which recorded with the good turnout of the votes, the two Public Interest Litigations' (PIL) were filed in the Madras High court- one was filed by the state opposition parties to seek the directive from the court to install the police security and the CCTV coverage in the vote-counting centers while the other was filed by an NGO with the motive of halting the results of the rural body polls until the completion of elections in the urban bodies.

The opposition parties including DMK had tabled its petition before the High court to issue the orders to the State Election Commission (SEC) to conduct a fair and transparent process of counting the votes by deploying sufficient police protection and installing the CCTV coverage in the counting centers and the parties have cited that the ruling party and its workers have allegedly been threatening and influencing the election officials to act in the favor of the candidates of the ruling party.

The state opposition party DMK has said that the election results would be biased and improper if the election officials are not let to work transparently and claimed that such violations would carpet the serious and unprecedented damage to the democratic election process and the party has stated that the ruling party's minister has incited the party men to unleash the attacks against the workers of the opposition parties and they further had intimidated the voters to cast the votes of the ruling party candidates.

The other petition was filed by Tamil Nadu based NGO Satta Panchayat Iyakkam in which it asked the court to ban the SEC from declaring the results of the local body elections of the rural bodies and the petition comes amidst the first phase of the elections have concluded on Friday while the second phase is scheduled on December 30th, 2019. The NGO has underlined that the declaration of the results of local body polls would possess a greater influence on the voters of the urban bodies.

Through its petition, the NGO had asserted that the results would change the minds of the voters and quoted that the 2019 Lok Sabha elections held in seven phases and the results of the parliamentary polls were declared after the completion of all the phases and claimed that the announcing the results of the elections in installments would be unfair for the process and it would not pave the way for having a free and fair election.

The PILs are expected to take up for the hearing on December 30th by the vacation bench headed by Justice Vaidyanathan. The first phase of the local body polls in 27 districts of the state had seen about 76% of the votes polled and the second phase will be taking place on December 30th and the results of both the phases would be declared in January 2nd, 2020.