Current Model of Electoral Funding - Inputs on Root Causes
Thanks for all the inputs so far on the various priorities/subjects.
Fighting elections in India is expensive and as it stands we do not have a well organized and transparent system for raising electoral funding.
Here is a summary of Key Issues highlighted by you on Election Funding:
1 Most of the parties are funded by businesses
2 No audited financial statements are made by the parties
3 Black money finds excellent usage during elections
4 ‘Chanda’ is collected in cash from the market on the pretext of better services when in power
5 The details of the funding is not made public
6 No receipts issued for the collections made
7 Details of how much spent is not disclosed
8 No effective mechanism to check if candidates or parties have exceeded the spending limit
Please find Root Causes to these above issues. Once we do that, we will work on identifying Solutions under a separate post.
Thanks for your participation!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta more