'Learn To Stand On Your Feet': SC Asks Ajit Pawar Not To Use Sharad Pawar's Photos In Campaign
The Supreme Court has directed Ajit Pawar's NCP not to depend on Sharad Pawar's pictures for poll campaign in Maharashtra.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked Ajit Pawar’s NCP not to depend on Sharad Pawar’s name for the November 20 Assembly polls and instructed it to refrain from using the support of pictures or videos of the party founder in the election campaigns, Bar and Bench reported.
A bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan said, “You try to stand up on your own legs, now that you have ideological difference with Sharad Pawar".
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SC Questions Ajit Pawar
“Why is the name of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SP) supremo Sharad Pawar being repeatedly used in online content put up by Ajit Pawar-led NCP?," the Supreme Court asked.
The court noted that the voters are wise enough to see through any confusion.
The top court had earlier issued directions to Ajit Pawar’s faction of the NCP to add a disclaimer in its poll advertisements while also clarifying that the use of the clock symbol was subject to the outcome of the legal proceedings with the Sharad Pawar-led faction over the ownership of the party symbol.
Ajit Pawar’s faction had said in the previous hearing that it would publish new Marathi disclaimers in the newspapers regarding the use of the clock symbol for the polls.
Sharad Pawar’s faction of the NCP had moved the Supreme Court stating that his nephew’s faction had engineered ‘large scale confusion’ in the minds of voters by using the clock symbol without any disclaimer.
The Court adjourned the matter to November 19.
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