Tag: Electoral Bond Scheme

Monday, March 11, five days after the SBI was supposed to handover the details of donors to Election Commission on March 5, the SC dismisses SBI’s application for extension; it had failed to comply with the February 15 order of the SC

In a strongly worded public appeal to the Election Commission of India (ECI), 80 former public servants have argued for a moral and legal compulsion for elections to be held only after SBI makes corporate purchase of electoral bonds public

In a short time from now, the Election Commission...

How can the damage caused by the unconstitutional Electoral Bonds Scheme be undone and a level playing field be assured? Will answers become more clear after March 13 when the Election Commission of India (ECI) always opposed to the non-transparent scheme prone to an unhealthy non-transparency and possibility of unethical quid pro quos makes public the List of Donors that have contributed substantively to the coffers of the ruling Party? This explainer explores such schemes world-over.

The five-judge Constitutional bench has struck down the scheme and the amendments made to the RPA Act, IT Act and the Companies Act; observed the right to privacy donors is important, transparency in political funding cannot be achieved by granting absolute exemptions

The NGO report, compiled by anonymous civil society actors calling themselves the Global NPO Coalition on FATF, looks at the many-layered and complex threat that the electoral bond scheme poses in a democracy. 

CIC took serious note of government agencies providing incomplete and vague information on RTI application seeking names of anonymous donors.

Opposition parties stage walkout after the Lok Sabha Speaker refuses to allow fair discussion on sale of electoral bonds for state elections