15 May, 2024
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What are electoral bonds? How do they work

An anonymous political funding system that protects donor identities is electoral bonds. During the 2017–2018 budget session, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman introduced them in the Finance Bill of 2017. The Supreme Court of India ruled in a landmark decision that electoral bonds are unlawful and “unconstitutional.” A few months before the largest democratic elections in […]