{"id":102051,"date":"2022-01-25T12:09:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T06:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Thenews21.com\/?p=102051"},"modified":"2022-01-25T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T06:39:43","slug":"supreme-court-issues-notices-to-centre-election-panel-on-pil-against-poll-freebies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/supreme-court-issues-notices-to-centre-election-panel-on-pil-against-poll-freebies","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court issues notices to Centre, election panel on PIL against poll freebies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>@the_news_21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought responses from the Centre and the Election Commission on a PIL seeking a direction to seize the election symbol or de-register a political party that promises or distributes irrational freebies from public funds before elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices A S Bopanna and Hima Kohli sought the response in four weeks on the PIL filed by BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plea said there should be a total ban on such populist measures to gain undue political favour from voters as they violate the Constitution and the ECI should take suitable deterrent measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@the_news_21 The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought responses from the Centre and the Election Commission on a PIL seeking a direction to seize the election symbol or de-register a political party that promises or distributes irrational freebies from public funds before elections. A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices A S Bopanna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":63453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[1692,43533,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102052,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102051\/revisions\/102052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}