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Court
notice to Tamil Nadu government on freebies
Friday July 22, 2011 08:27:18 AM,
IANS
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Chennai: The Madras
High Court Thursday issued notice to Tamil Nadu government giving
two weeks time to respond on a petition filed by a city advocate
S. Subramaniam Balaji against various freebies.
Balaji contended that freebies like laptops, mixers, grinders,
rice, cattle, fan and others are `ultra vires' the Indian
Constitution and the Representation of People's Act.
He said the freebies would be a heavy burden on the state finances
and cited Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa's statement that the
financial position of the State is precarious and that the total
debt of Tamil Nadu has exceeded Rs.145,000 crore.
"The present package for intended free distribution would add
another Rs.100,000 crore to be paid out of the exchequer of Tamil
Nadu state in a period of five years," Balaji contended.
According to him a promise of an unconstitutionality at an
election is prohibited under Article 173 of the Constitution of
India.
As such all the contestants of both the AIADMK and DMK led fronts
in recent assembly elections had promised an illegality and
unconstitutionality and are therefore liable to be disqualified.
"All the alliance party candidates impliedly and expressly
supported the free distribution offered by these two major parties
by not coming out impliedly or expressly against these free
distribution as election bribes," Balaji contended in his
petition.
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