Election freebies News

SC on Tuesday said a three-judge bench will hear a plea related to the freebies that political parties promise during election campaigns.

People's thinking nowadays has become such that if they get anything for free, they will start running towards it. If the government gave free grains, then they will vote for them and if someone promises free electricity, then they will make that person win the election. This is just like the Buy One, Get One offer of an online company which has no end. But in the end, the customer is at loss. This marketing strategy has now been made by the governments as their election strategy.

After Aam Aadmi Party's petition, Tamil Nadu`s DMK has also moved an impleadment motion notice before Supreme Court It urged the SC to be made a respondent to a plea seeking that political parties be prohibited from promising "freebies" during poll campaigns "It is humbly submitted that the scope of a `freebie` is very wide and there are a lot of aspects which are to be considered," it said

Nowadays the tradition of giving freebies has emerged very strongly in politics. Aam Aadmi Party has been promising many free things before every election. And after Delhi, AAP has got great success in Punjab. PM Modi has warned many times about free culture in the country.

A brake can now be put on the free politics soon. A petition has been submitted in the Supreme Court to stop the politics of grabbing votes by trapping the voter in the trap of freebies. The debate over this petition has also progressed. The petition has sought de-recognition of such political parties which promote freebies for electoral gains.

The Aam Aadmi Party had announced in the election that it would give financial assistance of one thousand rupees every month to all women above 18 years of age. There are about 1 crore women above the age of 18 in Punjab. Accordingly, to fulfill this promise, the government will have to spend one thousand crore rupees every month. In this report, see how free politics will cost the country?