NEW DELHI: Chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar, whereas reiterating that Election Fee is all for transparency, acknowledged the necessity for an institutional mechanism to regulate ‘unaccounted” cash in donations that additionally protects the donors’ privateness and ensures they aren’t harrassed for contributing to a sure political occasion.
Responding to a query on electoral bonds on the EC press convention right here, Kumar stated there isn’t any scope in a democracy for hiding issues. “We (at EC) are all for transparency. (However) the nation now has to ask and discover options by means of an institutional mechanism the place the donor’s privateness can also be thought of,” he underlined.
In a landmark verdict on February 15, the Supreme Courtroom had scrapped the Centre’s electoral bonds scheme that allowed the company donors anonymity and ordered disclosure by the EC of donors, the quantity donated by them and the recipients. The EC has since complied with the path.
However Kumar on Saturday voiced his concern of unaccounted cash making a comeback in political funding with the demise of bonds. “The unaccounted cash which is used within the elections…through the elections we’re very explicit to regulate it. However how we additionally management the donations within the unaccounted kind is one thing on which all the nation ought to work on…(such that) the donor’s privateness can also be protected and he’s not harassed. The way it (donation) is increasingly white,” he famous.
“Within the digital age, there have to be very much less money financial system. One has to assume and I’m positive some higher system will evolve the place it turns into like that,” added Kumar.
On a query concerning transparency in funding of events, the CEC stated EC guidelines make it necessary for all events to declare the contributions they obtain of their contribution stories, disclose how a lot they collected and spent of their annual audit accounts, and file their election bills after each election. “ We publish these on our web site,” he stated.
Responding to a query on electoral bonds on the EC press convention right here, Kumar stated there isn’t any scope in a democracy for hiding issues. “We (at EC) are all for transparency. (However) the nation now has to ask and discover options by means of an institutional mechanism the place the donor’s privateness can also be thought of,” he underlined.
In a landmark verdict on February 15, the Supreme Courtroom had scrapped the Centre’s electoral bonds scheme that allowed the company donors anonymity and ordered disclosure by the EC of donors, the quantity donated by them and the recipients. The EC has since complied with the path.
However Kumar on Saturday voiced his concern of unaccounted cash making a comeback in political funding with the demise of bonds. “The unaccounted cash which is used within the elections…through the elections we’re very explicit to regulate it. However how we additionally management the donations within the unaccounted kind is one thing on which all the nation ought to work on…(such that) the donor’s privateness can also be protected and he’s not harassed. The way it (donation) is increasingly white,” he famous.
“Within the digital age, there have to be very much less money financial system. One has to assume and I’m positive some higher system will evolve the place it turns into like that,” added Kumar.
On a query concerning transparency in funding of events, the CEC stated EC guidelines make it necessary for all events to declare the contributions they obtain of their contribution stories, disclose how a lot they collected and spent of their annual audit accounts, and file their election bills after each election. “ We publish these on our web site,” he stated.
