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Supreme Court to hear pleas challenging electoral bond scheme
10/13/2022 10:36:56 PM
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NEW ELHI, Oct 13: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear tomorrow a batch of pleas challenging laws permitting funding of political parties through the electoral bond scheme. Electoral bonds have been pitched as an alternative to cash donations made to political parties as part of efforts to bring transparency in political funding. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and BV Nagarathna is likely to take up the PILs by NGO, Association for Democratic Reforms, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and other petitioners.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO, on April 5 had mentioned the matter before the then CJI NV Ramana saying the issue was critical and needed an urgent hearing.
The top court had agreed to list the NGO's plea for hearing but it did not come up before any court.
Earlier, Bhushan had sought an urgent listing of the PIL from the top court on October 4 last year seeking a direction to the Centre not to open any further window for sale of electoral bonds during the pendency of a case pertaining to funding of political parties and alleged lack of transparency in their accounts.
The NGO, which had filed the PIL in 2017 on the alleged issue of corruption and subversion of democracy through illicit and foreign funding of political parties and lack of transparency in the accounts of all political parties, had filed an interim application in March this year before the assembly polls in West Bengal and Assam seeking that window for sale of electoral bonds be not reopened.
The NGO, in its fresh application filed in the pending petition, had claimed that there is a serious apprehension that any further sale of electoral bonds before the upcoming Assembly elections, including in West Bengal and Assam, would further increase illegal and illicit funding of political parties through shell companies.
On January 20 last year, the top court had refused to grant interim stay on the 2018 Electoral Bonds Scheme and sought responses of the Centre and the Election Commission on an interim application by the NGO seeking stay on the scheme.
The government notified the Electoral Bond Scheme on January 2, 2018.
According to provisions of the scheme, electoral bonds may be purchased by a person, who is a citizen of India or incorporated or established in India.An individual can buy electoral bonds, either singly or jointly with other individuals.
Only political parties registered under Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 and which secured not less than one percent of votes polled in the last general election to the House of the People or the Legislative Assembly of the State, are eligible to receive electoral bonds.
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