
Election Commission really autonomous: Admits electoral bonds against transparency
Election Commission of India has risen to the occasion by opposing at Supreme Court, the decision of central government to introduce electoral bonds for funding of political parties where names of contributors are hidden. These bonds have become source of undisclosed funding to ruling party getting 95-percent of total funding done through electoral bonds in the year 2017-18.
It is evident any ruling party will be getting major share of such opaque contribution because of contributors getting favours from the ruling party by themselves remaining anonymous.
Contributions made to political parties should be perfectly transparent and cashless. Electoral bonds must carry names of contributors to prevent these as indirect and legalised bribing to ruling party. With central government motiv...