SC notice to I&B Ministry, 6 states on 'misuse of public money' on ads


New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry and six states on a plea by an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmaker, alleging that advertisements are being issued at government expanses for political purposes to benefit the ruling party.

The states which have been issued the notice are Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Telangana.

The bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi sought the response on the plea by AAP's Burari MLA Sanjeev Jha, who has sought a direction to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to reimburse to the Centre and the state governments concerned the money they have spent on advertisements allegedly to benefit the ruling party.

The notice has also been issued to the BJP.

Telangana is ruled by the Telangana Rashtriya Samiti.

The petitioner has drawn the attention of the court towards "ex-facie violation and circumvention" of the directions issued by the top court by the Centre and the states controlled by the BJP

It has also pointed to the "gross dereliction of duty" by the committee set up by the Centre on April 6, 2016 in pursuance to the directions issued by the top court.

  

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Katapadi/Bangalore

    Sat, Sep 01 2018

    Control is need to be imposed on our central government too spending lavishly on media who work for them

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  • Pais, Mangalore

    Fri, Aug 31 2018

    Yarappana hana shabrey??? is the attitude that this shameless corrupt people have

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  • El En Tea, Mumbai

    Fri, Aug 31 2018

    Ramdev Baba Patanjali adv in all the channels we doubt Patanjali is paying for the advertisement Tax directly or .....

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  • PEDDA GUNDOO, MANGALURU

    Fri, Aug 31 2018

    DEAR SC its almost all time misusing the public money " kiska baap ka jaat hai: attitude from all the public servants. end of the day will come bad surprises like GST, RAFFLE Deal,. ADHAR CARD link to the banks, demonetization etc since they has got RELIGION CARD no one challenge them even BABA RAMADEV is become BUSINESSMAN who never thought of it but today he is competing with INTERNATIONAL BRANDS without spending single money on advertisement COZ of RELIGION CARD ! MODI is silence in every moment of outrage only he is FOCUSING ON poor fellow bloody idiot PAPPU. Public happy BJPeeeee Happy, If Public Happy vote is guarnteeeeee and the story will continue

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Aug 31 2018

    Lot of Money was spent on Garlands & Lynching ...

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  • Robotkem, Kemmannu

    Fri, Aug 31 2018

    Media needs to be OBJECTIVE, SINCERE & AUTHENTIC!!!
    FREEDOM OF SPEECH, USE OF DEMOCRACY, should be VERY MUCH DISCIPLINED!!!
    HATS OFF TO JUDICIARY!!!

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