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Frame Guidelines on Advt involving poiticians New Delhi: The supreme court on Friday directed the government to lay the guidelines for regulating the expenditure by its various departments on advertisements glorifying political leaders at the cost of tax payers’ money. A bench comprising Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justices C K Thakker and R V Raveendran said if the government did not come out with any decision on the issue by December, the court will then proceed to frame some guidelines and listed the matter for further hearing in first week of January. The order to this effect was passed after additional solicitor general (ASG) Amrender Sharan said the information and broadcasting ministry, which is the nodal agency, has convened a meeting of all departments and states in the first week of December to discuss the matter at length. The meeting will be held under the chairmanship of the ministry’s secretary, the ASG said. The bench, which wanted the matter to be considere...