Rest are barking up the wrong tree !
Today’s Hindustan Times carries following news report :
Proposal in
nutshell
:
“The Commission has
proposed to the law ministry that a ceiling may be stipulated on election expenditure by political parties towards Parliamentary or
Assembly elections.
It had proposed that
such ceiling should be either 50% of or not more than the expenditure ceiling
limit provided for the candidate multiplied
by the number of candidates of the party contesting the election.”
Milan Vaishnav(mvaishnav@gmail.com /https:milanvaishnav.com
) commented as follows :
“The loophole on party
expenditure has made individual limits on spending farcical. The issue is with
enforcement.
Given the difficulties
of monitoring and enforcement, it is not clear how limits on parties will be
more efficacious than limits on candidates.
I would prefer a
situation where contributions
were made more transparent and
spending limits were relaxed. But the government has made the former ever more
opaque”
My misgivings :
If this goes through ,
is it likely that each party may ask more than one of its members to contest
each seat ? May be 10 party-candidates for each seat ?
But this is so obvious
that the finally accepted proposal will also limit that each party can put up
only ONE candidate per seat . No brainer
!
The root cause of all
the “ extravagant / un-documented / un-reported “ , election related expenses is :
Un-accounted / Un-restricted
( BLACK MONEY
financed ) PARTY-FUNDING
As I had feared ,
recently introduced ELECTORAL BONDS have miserably failed in addressing this
fundamental / structural WEAKNESS ( - some
say intentional loophole )
The only foolproof way
to rectify this situation and make it totally transparent is to implement my
following suggestion ( sent as Email to Cabinet Ministers / NITI Aayog / PM-EAC
/ Election Commissioner / Political Party Chiefs etc ) , is :
Transparency
in Political Funding ? [ 06 July 2017
]
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