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Tyre cartel pays ruling BJP for govt’s connivance in ruining rubber farmers, plantation workers, small and medium traders & MSMEs alleges AIKS
The CPI-M affiliated All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has urged Prime Minister Modi to stop shedding crocodile tears for rubber farmers when his party has received money from leading tyre monopolies to buy government silence on “illegal caretelisation”
Electoral Bonds Scheme ‘Unconstitutional’: How do countries across the world deal with Campaign Finance?
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.
Supreme Court unanimously hold Electoral Bond scheme to be unconstitutional, violative of right to information
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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
Centre Allowed Electoral Bonds Sale for 15 More Days Despite Official Objection: ADR
The Electoral Bond Scheme was amended to ensure more donations can be made in a completely opaque manner before the elections, the election watchdog said in a Supreme Court affidavit.
Electoral Bonds: Non-Transparent and Unaccountable
On December 6, the Indian Supreme Court will decide on whether non-transparent political donations are hitting the sovereignty of the Indian people and their right to know
BREAKING: SC refuses to stay the sale of electoral bonds
The top court Bench said that there were sufficient safeguards and that it saw no justification for barring the sale
SC expresses concern over the possible misuse electoral bonds, reserves its order on the matter
Attorney General KK Venugopal, claims that after electoral bonds were launched in 2018, black money in election funding, has been kept under check
SC to hear plea seeking stay on the sale of electoral bonds on March 24
The petitioners have alleged that the electoral bond scheme increases illegal and illicit funding of political parties
Foot in the door? SC agrees to hear ADR’s plea seeking stay on disputable electoral bonds scheme
A bench led by the CJI SA Bobde has agreed to hear the plea by ADR in January
SBI issued electoral bonds worth Rs 3,622 crore in March and April: RTI
In its response to an RTI filed by Pune-based...
Electoral Bonds: SC directs all parties to reveal political funding details to EC
The apex court ordered the parties to furnish receipts...