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23
January 2017
The
Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea for deferring the Union budget 2017-18,
in view of assembly polls in five states, holding that the presentation has to
be done before the start of the financial year (FY) -- from April 1 -- and not
during the FY. The Total Investment
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Rejecting
the plea, a bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice N.V. Ramana
and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud said: "If there is something that the Centre
does that affects elections in the states then the Election Commission would
come into the picture ... but does it extend to the central budget?" The Total Investment & Insurance
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Advocate
M.L. Sharma, however, persisted with his plea for deferment of the
presentations of the budget as, he contended, it would influence the voters and
thus affect free and fair elections. The
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The
bench then asked him to give one concrete example to show that one step in the
budget that would affect the minds of the voters and the outcome of the
elections in the states.The Total Investment
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