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SC to Hear PIL on Freebies During Polls
Supreme Court has agreed to hear a PIL on Thursday, challenging the practice of political parties promising freebies during elections.
AA Edit | Freebies vs essentials row rages ahead of elections
Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan is literally on a freebie spree, offering liberal help to voters, especially women.
AA Edit | BJP in MP gives the lie to PM’s tall talk on freebies
The pattern evident in Indian electoral politics in the last two decades has been that people reward parties whose actions speak loudly
Manish Tewari | Freebies and welfare: Time to define critical difference
Freebies need to be defined clearly and the definition tailored precisely
Freebies to allure voters, welfarism policy intervention: BJP in letter to EC
The party has no objections to the poll panel's idea that political parties should also submit financial viability of their poll promises
AA Edit | Fight freebies, respect welfare
There is no such thing as a free lunch, of course, and therefore, no such thing as a freebie. It only means someone else will pay for it
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | ‘Freebie’ politics: Can Opp. use PM tactics against BJP?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched an all-out blitzkrieg against the politics of promising freebies or giveaways in return for votes
SC asks if Finance Commission can regulate revenue to states to discourage freebies
'It is a very serious issue. What is your suggestion on how you are going to control it?,' court asked the government counsel
Freebie culture dangerous for country: Modi
Modi asserted that those with freebies culture will never build new expressways, new airports or defence corridors
Sanjaya Baru | Rising freebies: The fiscal price of political failures
When political parties promise free television sets, kitchenware and suchlike, they are using the taxpayer’s money to bribe voters