PIL in Supreme Court to deregister political parties promising freebies before elections

The petitioner, BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay also sought a direction to be issued to the Central government to enact a law in this regard.

Supreme Court and Election Commission of india

Debayan Roy

A Public Interest Litigation petition has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking directions to Election Commission of India to seize election symbol and deregister political parties, which promise/distribute irrational freebies using public funds before elections.

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