Top Court Dismisses Plea Seeking Two-Child Norm For Poll Candidates
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea seeking direction to political parties not to give tickets to those who have more than two children.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna was hearing a plea seeking a direction that political parties should comply with the ‘two-child norm’ and not field candidates having more than two children.
The plea, filed by BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay, also sought declaration of the two-child norm as a mandatory criteria for government jobs, aids and subsidies and urged that the law, dealing with the “condition for recognition of a state or national party” be suitably amended.