Don't publish PM's photo without approval: Govt to Khadi commission

February 20, 2017 20:06

The government has sent a memorandum to Khadi and Village Industries Commission, making it mandatory for the body to approach the PMO through the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises ministry to seek approval before publishing photographs of the Prime Minister.

The move comes over a month after the photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Khadi and Village Industries Commission's diary and calendar kicked off a row.

The memo has debunked the claims made by KVIC's top officials that it had sought the PMO clearance before replacing Mahatma Gandhi's picture with Modi's in its 2017 wall calendar and diary.

The detailed memorandum issued by the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises ministry outlines that the "issue pertaining to publishing the photographs of Prime Minister in the diary and calendar of KVIC has raised the following points which need to be followed by KVIC in the future".

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