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The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to list for hearing on March 21 a PIL against the practice of political parties promising freebies during elections...
The plea said there should be a total ban on populist measures to gain undue political favour from voters as they violate the Constitution, and the Election Commission should take suitable deterrent measures...
The apex court had earlier said that the issue of freebies promised by the political parties during election campaigns requires extensive debate, and referred the case to a three-judges bench...
One of the pleas filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay sought direction to Election Commission of India to seize election symbols and deregister political parties that promised to distribute irrational freebies from public funds...
The plea had claimed that political parties arbitrarily promises irrational freebies for wrongful gain and to lure voters in their favour is analogous to bribery and undue influences...
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