ADR organised a webinar on "Electoral Bonds: Citizens' Right To Know Vs Company's Confidentiality” on 19th December 2023 (Tuesday) at 3:00 PM (IST).
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You can watch here:
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BBej3jVFkc
The focus points for the discussion would be the rebuttals for the following arguments put forth by the Government during the Supreme Court hearings:
- Amendments were brought to reduce political donations from black money.
- Amendments do not infringe citizens ‘Right To Know’ as citizens have no right to know about financial bearings of political class.
- Any possibility of quid pro quo between corporates and political parties under the amendments is very rare.
- Electoral Bonds and the electoral level playing field.
- “….The operations of the Scheme are not behind iron curtains incapable of being pierced. All that is required is a little effort to cull out such information (Electoral Bonds contributed to parties by Corporate donors) from both sides i.e. the donor and the donee and do some match the following”.
- Amount of Unknown Sources of Income (declared by parties in their audit reports but without giving their source) has reduced since Electoral Bonds.
Moderator: Prof Jagdeep Chhokar, Founder Member & Trustee of ADR
Speakers:
- Shri Vijay Hansaria, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India
- Shri Kamal Kant Jaswal, President of the Governing Council, Common Cause
- Dr Fuad Halim, Senior Leader, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
- Shri Sanjay Raman Sinha, Senior Executive Editor (legal) TV Channel – APN News Publication – “India Legal”
Date:
19.12.2023
Time:
3:00 PM
Venue :
Twitter, YouTube & Facebook Live
Topic:
Electoral Bonds: Citizens' Right To Know Vs Company's Confidentiality
