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India: Rs. 300 Million Of Praise

Categories: South Asia, India, Governance, Media & Journalism

Sneha [1] finds out that Indian Rs. 300 Million were spent between 2009 to 2011 on advertisements on the birth and death anniversaries of Rajiv and Indira Gandhi, two assassinated leaders of the ruling congress party. Her concern is that these expenses were paid from the taxpayers’ money — without his and her consent — on praising these ex-statesmen.