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TopicElectoral bonds

Topic: electoral bonds

An electoral bond is a financial instrument for making donations to political parties. According to the Electoral Bond Scheme, 2018, it is a bond issued in the nature of a promissory note, which shall be bearer in character. A bearer instrument is one which does not carry the name of the buyer or payee, no ownership information is recorded and the holder of the instrument (i.e. political party) is presumed to be its owner.

The scheme allows individuals, who are citizens of India, and domestic companies to donate these bonds — issued in multiples of Rs 1,000, Rs 10,000, Rs 1 lakh, Rs 10 lakh, and Rs 1 crore — to political parties of their choice. The Supreme Court of India on February 15, 2024, struck down the electoral bonds scheme for anonymous funding to political parties as “unconstitutional”.

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ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

Electoral bonds can now redeem themselves and Supreme Court. Anonymity cloak set to come off

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Electoral bonds are now set to bring transparency in political funding, but not in the way Arun Jaitley had claimed. The real deal will be when SBI reveals details of who donated how much to which political party.

Fewer ‘political consequences’, can help curb black money — why SC prefers electoral trusts to bonds

Akshat Jain -
While striking down electoral bond scheme, Supreme Court suggested using electoral trusts introduced by Congress-led UPA, calling it an 'effective alternative' for political donations.

SC ruling on electoral bonds is a vaccine for the future not medicine for the present

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The clear timeline set by the Supreme Court suggests that it is conscious about making information available to people before 2024 elections. But do voters have enough time to untangle the web of quid pro quo?

‘Unlimited corporate contributions to parties contrary to free & fair elections,’ says SC

Apoorva Mandhani -
Striking down electoral bonds scheme, SC said ‘chief reason for corporate funding of political parties is to influence political process which may in turn improve company’s performance’.

‘Throwing baby out with bathwater’ — BJP reacts to SC declaring electoral bonds unconstitutional

Neelam Pandey -
BJP’s Baijayant Panda says ‘electoral bonds were infinitely better than suitcases of illicit cash’ while Ravi Shankar Prasad asserts scheme was meant to reform election funding.

10 important observations SC made while striking down electoral bonds scheme as unconstitutional

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Supreme Court in its electoral bonds judgment observed that political 'contributions enhance access to legislators which translates into influence over policymaking'.

Kharge welcomes scrapping of electoral bonds — ‘hope govt will stop resorting to mischievous ideas’

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After the Supreme Court annulled electoral bonds scheme Thursday, calling it 'unconstitutional', Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge says it was 'black money conversion scheme of Modi govt'.

SC took apart Modi govt’s anonymous electoral bonds, shows why it’s still India’s most valuable institution

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