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Court notice on ads by political parties in
power
Wednesday May 16, 2012 08:39:17 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Delhi
High Court Wednesday issued a notice to the central government on
a petition that alleged political parties in power misused public
funds by giving advertisements on the birth and death
anniversaries of their leaders.
The division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice
R.S. Endlaw sought a reply from the director general, Directorate
of Advertising and Visual Publicity, of the central government by
July 18.
The court's order came on a petition by Umesh Sethi who claimed
that he came to know through a right to information application
that Rs.30 crore were spent by various ministries between 2009-11
on such advertisements.
"Public money is being spent on eulogising leaders with definite
linkage to political party in power, on their birth and death
anniversaries, and it has adverse impact in many ways," said Sethi.
"Such spending is also violating certain aspects of the Prevention
of Corruption Act and needs to be investigated," the petitioner
said, and sought teh court's directions to the Comptroller and
Auditor General of India to audit the ministries' accounts.
The petition objected to public schemes being named after leaders
of political parties, brand building via public monuments,
institutions and programmes by political parties.
"Such brand building is rampant and skews the level playing field
during elections, which is very dangerous for a democracy," said
the petitioner.
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