Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Monday, Nov 17, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Monday, Nov 17, 2003 |
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Politics EC clarifies on school bags Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has said it was ready to lift the ban on school bags meant for SC/ST children with Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Mr Ajit Jogi's photograph printed on them if the State Government gave an undertaking that it would not distribute the same before the State Assembly elections. ``We do not have any problems in allowing procurement of school bags provided the Chhattisgarh Government undertakes not to distribute the same till completion of the electoral process in the State," the Election Commission Counsel, Mr Pankaj Rai Chopra, told Mr Justice B.D. Ahmed of the Delhi High Court. Mr Justice Ahmed had earlier asked the commission to clarify its stand on its October 24 directive to the State Government to stop distribution as well as procurement of school bags. The court would hear the matter next week. Petitioner Mr D.M. Pocketwalla, who bagged the order for the supply of school bags with Mr Jogi's photograph printed on them, has challenged the commission's ban on procurement, saying it would jeopardise the whole contract.
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