{"id":297098,"date":"2024-05-28T17:59:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=297098"},"modified":"2024-05-28T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:29:11","slug":"supreme-court-ruling-on-election-manifestos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/supreme-court-ruling-on-election-manifestos\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Ruling on Election Manifestos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source-<\/strong>This post on <strong>Supreme Court Ruling on Election Manifestos\u00a0<\/strong>has been created based on the article &#8220;<strong>Nothing \u2018corrupt\u2019 in making promises in manifestos, says SC&#8221;<\/strong> published in\u00a0<strong>\u201cThe Hindu\u201d<\/strong> on 28 May 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>Why in News?<\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court recently stated that<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> there is nothing corrupt about promises made in a political party\u2019s manifesto<\/span> which eventually works out to the public\u2019s financial benefit.<\/p>\n<h2>About Supreme Court Ruling on Election Manifestos<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Case-<\/strong> The case pertains to an appeal against the electoral victory of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, a Congress candidate, in the 2023 Karnataka Assembly election. <\/span>The petitioner had argued that the promises in Mr. Khan&#8217;s party manifesto were corrupt. However, the court rejected this claim, describing the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">promises as policy thresholds and projections,<\/span> not as corrupt practices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judgement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The Supreme Court of India has stated that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">making promises in election manifestos is not inherently corrupt<\/span>, even if these promises may lead to financial benefits for the public.<\/p>\n<p>2. The court ruled that such commitments are not considered<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> &#8220;corrupt practices&#8221; by candidates. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus: Polity and nation<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on Supreme Court Ruling on Election Manifestos\u00a0has been created based on the article &#8220;Nothing \u2018corrupt\u2019 in making promises in manifestos, says SC&#8221; published in\u00a0\u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 28 May 2024. Why in News? The Supreme Court recently stated that there is nothing corrupt about promises made in a political party\u2019s manifesto which eventually works&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/supreme-court-ruling-on-election-manifestos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Supreme Court Ruling on Election Manifestos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-297098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}