LOK PRAHARI THR.ITS GNRL.SECY,S.N.SHUKLA vs STATE OF U.P..

The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Vidhayak Nidhi Scheme in Uttar Pradesh, which provides annual budgetary grants to MLAs and MLCs for development work in their constituencies. The Court found no distinction between this scheme and the MPLADS, which had previously been upheld in Bhim Singh v. Union of India (2010) 5 SCC 538. The appellant's argument that the scheme violates Article 243ZD and the U P District Planning Committee Act, 1999 was rejected, affirming the legality of the scheme.