AAP spending a lot on ads slamming Centre: Maken

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Ajay Maken told the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that the AAP government was violating the Supreme Court’s guidelines on government advertisements

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Ajay Maken told the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that the AAP government was violating the Supreme Court’s guidelines on government advertisements by spending public money on ads criticising the Centre.

HT Image

In an affidavit, Maken referred to recent newspaper advertisements taken out by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in other states, berating the Centre for transferring officers of GNCTD.

The ads say the Centre has not cleared bills of the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD), the affidavit, placed before a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, said.

The affidavit, filed in Maken’s plea, is one of four that have been moved against the advertisements issued by the AAP government. The petitions alleged that the advertisements have been issued in violation of guidelines.