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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Electoral Bonds: Non-Transparent and Unaccountable

Electoral Bonds: Non-Transparent and Unaccountable

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published Published on Oct 19, 2022   modified Modified on Oct 19, 2022

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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.

Electoral Bonds, in the transparency and accountability graph, as claimed by the government have some inherently anti-democratic characters. Their key feature of anonymity enables a system where people do not know who are giving/donating money to the political parties they then are voting for. An under-informed electorate can only make haphazard decisions which is a bad sign for electoral democracy. A combination of laws regarding election finance combined with the Electoral Bond Scheme acts as an impediment in India’s journey towards a stronger, more accountable democracy.

The Supreme Court on Friday. October 14, 2022 posted a batch of petitions challenging the anonymous electoral bonds scheme to December 6, 2022 for the next hearing. The petitions challenging the scheme were listed for the first time on Friday after a long delay; the last hearing having been on March 26, 2021.

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(The author is a legal researcher currently giving his post graduate examinations). 


Newsclick.in, 19 October, 2022, https://www.newsclick.in/electoral-bonds-non-transparent-unaccountable


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