JAIPUR: The Rajasthan high court ordered on Wednesday that no public function sponsored and financed by the state government would be held during the Rajasthan Gaurav Yatra undertaken by BJP. The yatra is to be led by the chief minister. The court said that on the day of the Gaurav Yatra no government function should be incorporated, according to the counsel for petitioner Madhav Mitra.A division bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice G R Moolchandani pronounced the order on a PIL by lawyer Vibhuti Bhushan Sharma . The petition alleged misuse of public money and machinery by chief minister Vasundhara Raje for the party's programme, Rajasthan Gaurav Yatra, a political campaign by the ruling party.The court said the state government conceded that public functions like inaugurating government projects or exhibitions to publicise the social welfare schemes of the state were to be held during the Gaurav Yatra. The court said it meant that the CM and other BJP office-bearers would travel as part of the road journey and, when the yatra halted for break, government-sponsored functions would be held. Thereafter, the yatra would resume and another state-sponsored function would be held during another temporary halt."So intermingled are the state-sponsored and state-financed programmes with the Gaurav Yatra that it would be impossible to segregate one from the other," the court observed.To a common man, if during the Gaurav Yatra, which is a political event, the leader of the political party who happens to be the CM inaugurates public functions, the understanding would be glorification of the political party and not of the achievements of the government, it said.

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