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Political poetry meant to defend the government has dragged it to high court. A PIL filed by a Bilaspur resident has alleged that the state BJP government used public money to take on rival Congress in political ads published last week.
It began as a poetic war of words between the state Congress and BJP. The first salvo was fired by state congress president Nand Kumar Patel who published a poem on November 8, his birthday, titled ‘How do I celebrate my birthday?’ A lament on corruption in the BJP government, it was placed as a quarter page advertisement on the front page of several Hindi dailies.
The next day, the newspapers carried rebuttals, again in the form of poetry, published as ads in the name of unknown BJP workers, Ghusru Ram, Ramu Patel, Peelu Ram from Raigarh, Sarguja and Bastar. However, the ads in two newspapers carried at the bottom the name of the government publicity agency Samvad along with a number of the release order.
On Friday, a resident of Bilaspur, Vinay Sharma, filed a petition alleging the ads were a blatant misuse of tax-payers money by the government for settling political scores.
In a hearing on Monday, the court neither dismissed nor admitted the petition. It gave the petitioner seven days to return with a revised petition adding to the list of respondents the names of the newspaper editors who could clarify who exactly had paid for the ads.
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