With the Lok Sabha election dates announced, national political parties had begun campaigning in various ways such as displaying political messages and photographs on their mobile phone covers. (File)A Delhi-based social worker has sent a legal notice to a textile trader of Surat who had printed sarees featuring photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the armed forces, following India's air strikes in Pakistan. She said “depicting respectable persons on the legs of ladies” is derogatory and disrespectful, and has demanded that the trader deposit Rs 1 crore into the Army Welfare Fund.
“The textile trader should tender an unconditional apology and also deposit an amount of Rs 1 crore in the bank account…of the Army Welfare Fund within 15 days from the date of the receipt of the legal notice, failing which, legal actions, criminal and civil, will be taken,” the legal notice sent by Sheetal Verma, a social worker and national president of Bhartiya Mahila Party, said. The notice said the trader would also have to bear the expenses borne by Verma in sending the legal notice.
With the Lok Sabha election dates announced, national political parties had begun campaigning in various ways such as displaying political messages and photographs on their mobile phone covers. Here in Surat, the textile traders saw an opportunity and printed sarees and dress materials of political leaders such as Prime Minister Modi, Congress General Secretary Priyanka…
