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With focus on political donations following the scrapping of the electoral bond scheme, former Chief Election Commissioner SY Qureshi on Wednesday advocated setting up a national fund. in which donations can be given to corporations and then distributed among the parties in relation to their performance in the last elections.
Qureshi said that instead of giving money to elections, funding political parties would be a better option. In this way it is possible to take care of the organizational needs and the political activity of political parties. In an interview to PTI, Qureshi said, when the electoral bond scheme was launched in 2017, it talked about transparency. But it destroyed the transparency that was there till then. Qureshi was the Chief Election Commissioner between July 2010 and June 2012.
The former Chief Election Commissioner said, if you remember, the then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley started his speech very nicely. He said that without transparency of political donations, free and fair elections are not possible. It was like music to our ears because that’s what we said. His second statement was as good as we haven’t been able to achieve this transparency in the last seventy years. We hoped that his third sentence would be that we are going to achieve transparency and we will.
