The Supreme Court judgment on election manifestos, howsoever painful it may appear for the political parties, is certain to come as a big relief to electorates lured away by political parties under false promises. The SC has come down heavily on the freebies offered by the political parties and the move is certain to cleanse the election system rotten with falsified notions of ideal governments.

The SC judgment should not be taken in isolation, merely on the issue of freebies but added with false promises those that are difficult to fulfil. A case in point is the promises made by Congress and NCP -- the two alliance partners of the Democratic Front government ruling Maharashtra since the last 14 years. Both parties fought separately in 1999 but came together to form the government.