"Politics Of Freebies Distort Expenditure Priorities": Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar was the chief guest at the event hosted by the National Human Rights Commission at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.

Politics of so-called freebies for which society sees "mad race", distort expenditure priorities, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Sunday and asserted that the need was to "empower not pockets but human minds".

In his address at a National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) event here marking the Human Rights Day, he also said that no part of the globe is so "blossoming, prospering with human rights as our country is doing".

The occasion also marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).