The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will remove billboards carrying photographs of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi along the highways following an objection from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
The authority, in its letter dated February 26 to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, has “proposed not to provide display boards with photographs of Prime Minister and chairperson UPA in view of letter from PMO wherein it has directed not to use the photographs of the Prime Minister without specific approval from PMO.”
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