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A Delhi-based lawyer Saturday moved a PIL in the Supreme Court to get the food security ordinance quashed,saying that the enabling constitutional provision had been misused for pre-poll propaganda and political gains.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday signed the ordinance on food security to give the countrys two-third population the right to get 5 kg of foodgrain monthly at highly subsidised rate.
Advocate M L Sharma claimed that Article 123 that deals with the power of the President to promulgate ordinances during the recess of Parliament has been misused as there was no emergency situation. There was no emergency circumstance to issue impugn ordinance hence it does not comply with the terms of Article 123, stated the petition.
Instead of complying with the SC direction to release foodgrain,the Respondent has released a food bill via ordinance route for political mileage, the PIL,which has made Principal Secretary of the PMO and the agriculture minister as parties,said.
