Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Election Commission deadline to the Uttar Pradesh government to cover up Chief Minister Mayawati's statues and those of her party symbol - the elephant - expired on Wednesday evening at 5 pm.
UP officials spent the night covering up statues all over the state.
Meanwhile, a Public Interest Litigation filed in the Allahabad High Court challenging the Election Commission's order for covering statues of elephants in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh was on Wednesday dismissed as withdrawn.
The PIL, filed on Monday by a local social activist Dheeraj Singh, was taken up for hearing before a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice S R Alam and Justice Ran Vijai Singh which pointed out at the outset that the petition had 'technical shortcomings'.
The court expressed displeasure over the fact that neither the petitioner's identity was disclosed in the PIL nor had a copy of the impugned order of the Election Commission (EC) been attached.
The petitioner's counsel, Anil Singh Bisen, thereafter requested for permission to file amendments to correct the shortcomings.
However, the court was of the view that the petition should be "dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to the petitioner to file a fresh PIL in accordance with norms". Bisen claimed that a fresh petition will be filed "soon".
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