PM-President’s photo missing from Chess Olympiad advertisements, HC reprimands government

Chess Olympiad 2022 Update: The Madras High Court has reprimanded the Tamil Nadu government for not putting the photographs of the Prime Minister and the President in the advertisements of the Chess Olympiad 2022. A bench of Chief Justice MN Bhandari and Justice S Ananti rejected the reasons given by the Tamil Nadu government for not including the photographs of the two.

The Madras High Court has reprimanded the state’s MK Stalin government and directed them to ensure that the President and Prime Minister’s photographs appear in all advertisements related to Chess Olympiad 2022. Along with this, the bench also directed the state government to take strict action against those who tamper with the photographs of the President and the Prime Minister.

Madras High Court gave these instructions to the state government

The bench said that in public programs, the state government should follow the directions of the Supreme Court. The court asked the state government to ensure that even if the President and the Prime Minister accept invitations to any international event or not, advertisements related to the event must have their photographs as they represent the country at the international level.

Public interest litigation was filed

Please tell that a public interest litigation was filed in the Madras High Court by Rajesh Kumar, a resident of Madurai. The petitioner had termed the use of only Chief Minister MK Stalin’s photograph in all advertisements of the 44th Chess Olympiad at Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu from July 28 to August 10 as illegal and in violation of the directions of the Supreme Court. The petitioner had appealed to the court to direct the Tamil Nadu government to include the photographs of the President and the Prime Minister in the advertisements.

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