New Delhi, March 3 : The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking direction for registration of FIRs and disqualification of candidates from the Congress, AAP and Samajwadi Party for offering freebies during Assembly elections in five states. The court refused to entertain the petition, filed by Surjit Singh Yadav through advocate Barun Kumar Sinha, after calling it a motivated plea. “This is a motivated petition. We feel there is a hidden agenda. Why you are targeting particular parties?” a bench led by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana said. The bench said the plea should be dismissed with exemplary cost as instead of seeking general directions, the petitioner targeted a few political parties. “Why have you mentioned a particular party as if nobody else is doing it?” the bench asked the petitioner. It also sought to know the credential of the petitioner who said he was the national Vice President of NGO ‘Hindu Sena’. The court declined to consider the plea, saying it was a “publicity interest petition”. Yadav said he was aggrieved by the offer and promises made by the Congress, Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the ongoing assembly elections being held in five states. He wanted the court to disqualify all the members set up by the Congress and Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and all AAP candidates in Punjab. SM MR
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