New Delhi, January 29: There seems to a disparity in expenditure on advertisements for remembering national icons, with the government spending nearly triple the amount for glorifying Rajiv Gandhi in two months than what it did for Lal Bahadur Shastri in 10 years.
The DAVP has spent nearly Rs three crore over a period of two months on advertisements to glorify late prime minister Gandhi as against only Rs 87 lakh over a period of 10 years for Shastri, also a former premier.
This was revealed in an RTI reply by the CPIO, DAVP, Mattu J P Singh who refrained from disclosing expenditure incurred on the advertisement on other ex-prime ministers.
Ajay Marathe, a resident of Mumbai, had filed an RTI application with the ministry, seeking information pertaining to advertisements issued by the DAVP with photographs of Rajiv Gandhi and other former prime ministers.
–PTI