India, May 29 -- A Madras High Court judge on Friday orally observed that involving children in political campaigning was inappropriate, while hearing a plea alleging that the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) used children in its campaign during the recently concluded Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.

Justice GR Swaminathan, who was hearing the matter along with Justice V Lakshminarayanan, shared an anecdote from his own experience and remarked that even his grandchild had urged him to vote for TVK leader and TN chief minister C Joseph Vijay.

"Using children is bad, right? When I was going to vote, my grandchild was saying, taatha you have to vote for Vijay only," Justice Swaminathan said.

Senior counsel S Muralidhar, who was appearing for ...