The former CEC said: “On this day, 16 Articles came into effect, including Article 324 that laid the foundation for the establishment of Election Commission mandated with “superintendence, direction and control” of all elections.”
November 27, 2019An adjournment motion was moved by the Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, accusing the centre over the issue.
November 21, 2019The party did not disclose donations received in form of electoral bonds in the filing.
November 12, 2019Chandrashekhar Goud, an RTI activist based in Madhya Pradesh's Neemuch, Sunday shared the information furnished by the State Bank of India (SBI) in response to his two queries.
July 21, 2019The bonds are valued at Rs 1000, Rs 10,000, Rs one lakh, Rs 10 lakh and Rs one crore.
June 16, 2019If at all the electoral bond route is to be allowed, first of all, they should not be sold as a bearer instrument.
May 9, 2019The Centre and the Election Commission had taken contrary stands in the Supreme Court on Wednesday over political funding.
April 12, 2019Not even the Americans spent as much on their 2016 presidential and Congressional races of $6.5 billion to go by the numbers from OpenSecrets.org, the ‘money in American politics’ tracker.
March 23, 2019The sale of the first batch of electoral bonds will take place from March 1-10 at designated branches of State Bank of India, the finance ministry said on Thursday. The government had notified the Electoral Bond Scheme on January 2 this year. As per provisions of the scheme, a person, who is a citizen of …
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February 22, 2018Attacking the government move to have electoral bonds, the CPI-M on Saturday said this was another way of legalising political corruption and a resort for trade-offs between political parties and corporates. The party has already challenged electoral bonds in the Supreme Court. “CPI-M has always believed that first step to ending political corruption is to …
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February 4, 2018The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Centre’s response on a plea by the CPI(M) and its general secretary Sitaram Yechury challenging the government’s decision on issuing electoral bonds. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud issued notice on the plea and said it will be …
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February 2, 2018Dismissing the electoral bonds scheme as “no reform”, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Pavan Varma on Friday advocated “digital tracking” of political financing and said that a panel of auditors should go through the accounts of parties. The central government recently notified a scheme of electoral bonds in a bid to clean the system and bring …
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January 27, 2018Hitting out at the BJP-led government for its “regressive policies”, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday said what the country needed was policies and not leaders. He said alternative policies would be the basis of Opposition unity and hope for other secular parties. Talking to the media at a “Meet the Press”under the aegis …
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January 10, 2018Hitting out at the BJP-led government for its “regressive policies”, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday said what the country needed was policies and not leaders. He said alternative policies would be the basis of Opposition unity and hope for other secular parties. Talking to the media at a “Meet the Press” under the …
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January 9, 2018The electoral bonds mechanism is a substantial improvement in transparency over the present system and the government is open to suggestions to further cleanse political funding, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Sunday. In a Facebook post, Jaitley said the conventional practice of funding the political system was to take donations as well as undertake …
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January 8, 2018Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said that most political parties are “fairly satisfied” with the present system of political funding and would not like to move on to a transparent system such as electoral bonds. “India has not been able to evolve a transparent political funding system…Most political groups seem fairly satisfied with the …
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January 7, 2018BJP President Amit Shah on Tuesday said the government’s move to notify a scheme of electoral bonds would pave the way to clean the system, curb black money and bring transparency in political funding in the country. The scheme will help keep check on corruption in the name of political funding, Shah said in a …
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January 3, 2018