Not mandatory to display portraits of a long list of personalities in all government buildings, State tells HC Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The State government on Wednesday told the Madras High Court that it is not mandatory to display the portraits of a host of personalities, including the President, Prime Minister, incumbent Chief Minister and past Chief Ministers in all government buildings. It said a 2006 Government Order (G.O.) uses the word ‘may’ and therefore it was up to the authorities concerned to display some of a long list of portraits mentioned in the G.O. Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy closed a public interest litigation petition after recording the submissions made by Advocate General Vijay Narayan, on behalf of the State, that it might not be in public interest to make it mandatory for all of those portraits to be displayed in all government buildings. The judges observed that the officials should act in accordance with law on the issue.