PTI
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sc-seeks-explanation-on-govt-ads-glorifying-political-leaders/article4620308.ece
The Supreme
Court has issued notice to Centre and State governments on a plea
seeking its direction to restrain them for spending public money on
glorifying political leaders through advertisements on their birth and
death anniversaries.
A bench of justices C.K. Prasad and V.G. Gowda granted four weeks time to governments to file their response.
The court
passed the order on a plea of an NGO, Centre for Public Interest
Litigation, seeking its intervention on the issue as crores of tax
payer’s money are spend by the governments and public sector units to
glorify personalities of ruling political parties by way of
advertisements.
“It is
submitted that the Governments and State instrumentalities are
continuously and in routine manner misusing the public funds to glorify
personalities of ruling political parties by way of advertisements,”
advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the petitioner, said.
He said “such
a blatant and misuse of public fund by Governments in routine manner
is not only breach of public trust and violation of the rule of law but
it is also damaging the democratic set up of the country.”
“The
political parties in power are blatantly squandering taxpayers’ money to
highlight their achievements and to glorify their leaders of present
or past. Such a practice is either aimed to avail unfair advantage in
elections by political parties or to assert loyalties towards the
political leadership of the party in power. This wasteful and wholly
unnecessary exercise cannot be justified in any manner,” the petition
said.
The bench, after hearing his plea, issued notice and asked the governments to file response within four weeks.
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