Electoral Bond Scheme Designed To Favour Ruling Party: Congress's New Claim
NDTV
The Congress in its 2019 Lok Sabha manifesto and the 85th Plenary Session in Raipur earlier this year promised to scrap the "opaque" electoral bond scheme that is designed to favour the ruling party, he said.
The Congress today claimed that the electoral bond scheme was designed to favour the ruling party and demanded a transparent system of electoral funding.
Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said more than 52 per cent of the BJP's political donations of Rs 5,271.97 crore between FY 2016-17 and FY 2021-22 came from electoral bonds as against Rs 1,783.93 crore received by all other national parties according to a new report by the Association for Democratic Reforms.
"This effectively implies that the Modi government's controversial, corrupt and contrived electoral bonds scheme is a money whitening scheme, which converts black money to white," he claimed at a press conference.
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