Lawyer challenges Food Security Ordinance in Supreme Court

July 06, 2013 17:23

A PIL was today filed in the Supreme Court seeking quashing of controversial Food Security Ordinance on the ground that the constitutional provision has been misused for pre-election propaganda and political gains.

President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday signed the ordinanceon Food Security to give the nation's two-third population the right to get 5 kg of food grains every month at highly subsidised rates of Rs 1-3 per kg.

The petition, filed by advocate M L Sharma, said the Article 123 of the Constitution 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.

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