Stop political slogans on public bldgs: SC to TN
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: 26.03.2019
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Tamil Nadu government to take all steps to prevent defacement of natural landscapes and public buildings with political slogans and photographs of political leaders.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi criticised the Tamil Nadu government for filing an affidavit stating that the Madras high court has constituted a committee to look into grievances relating to defacement of natural landscapes and public buildings with political messages and that petitioner-advocate E G Rajendran could move the said committee.
The bench said the counter affidavit filed by the state government was not in the spirit of the March 8 order of the SC, which had expressed serious concern over the issue and wanted the state to take preventive measures.
It then ordered the Tamil Nadu government “to take all steps to prevent disfigurement and defacement of natural features like hillocks and hill faces, rocks as well as public installations and buildings with political slogans and photographs of politicians”.
For NGO ‘In Defence of Environment and Animals’, Rajendran had said political parties were responsible for 90% of defacement done to bridges, central medians of state and national highways and hillocks. He had urged the SC to direct political parties to immediately remove these posters and paintings on natural landscapes or face disqualification of candidates who had indulged in such vandalism.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: 26.03.2019
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Tamil Nadu government to take all steps to prevent defacement of natural landscapes and public buildings with political slogans and photographs of political leaders.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi criticised the Tamil Nadu government for filing an affidavit stating that the Madras high court has constituted a committee to look into grievances relating to defacement of natural landscapes and public buildings with political messages and that petitioner-advocate E G Rajendran could move the said committee.
The bench said the counter affidavit filed by the state government was not in the spirit of the March 8 order of the SC, which had expressed serious concern over the issue and wanted the state to take preventive measures.
It then ordered the Tamil Nadu government “to take all steps to prevent disfigurement and defacement of natural features like hillocks and hill faces, rocks as well as public installations and buildings with political slogans and photographs of politicians”.
For NGO ‘In Defence of Environment and Animals’, Rajendran had said political parties were responsible for 90% of defacement done to bridges, central medians of state and national highways and hillocks. He had urged the SC to direct political parties to immediately remove these posters and paintings on natural landscapes or face disqualification of candidates who had indulged in such vandalism.
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