As an answer to message appended herein below, I believe, director of advertisement and visual publicity (DAVP) has released information saying, 'UPA II has spent following amount, for a period 2008 - 2013, on birth and death anniversary Advertisements in newspapers:
1) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ..38.3 crores rupees; 2) Rajiv Gandhi..25.4 crores rupees; 3) BR Ambedkar..17.9 crores; 4) Indira Gandhi...16.9 crores; 5) Jawahar Lal.10.9 crores According to DAVP, Of the total rupees 142.3 crore spent on newspaper advertisements on former leaders, rupees 53.2 crores were exclusively used for advertisement on the GANDHI TRIO! (For more information on this, please refer front page of TOI - Goa edition, dated 9th June 2013. And if any member of Goanet does not believe in the amount spent can directly contact DAVP!) One will have also to contemplate this year's cost on such advertisements, starting from April 2013 to 2014 (till declaration of upcoming general election results)!! Secondly, and most importantly, as these Advertisements are issued by government of India under leadership of UPA II - THIS IS OUR MONEY!! What is more striking is, despite the fact that India's economy is going down every day, UPA II prefers to spend crores of rupees, which is our money, on Advertisements!! This expenditure on Advertisement alone speaks volumes - yes, UPA II is far away from the big claims they are making - they are actually running the government OFF the people, BUY the people and FAR the people!! U. G. Barad On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 JoeGoaUk joego...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Today, all English dailies had half page colour ad front page welcoming BJP National Executives?to Goa. if there are say 8 dailies including Marathi etc, today's cost alone could run well into half a crore. Similarly, one has to take into account yesterday's cost and tomorrow's if any - and this is issued by Govt. of Goa- which is our money. I thought Parrikar Govt? was different. birds of feather flock together. shishhhh.