Corporate Funding of Elections
(The bane of all democracies)
Come elections, one finds thousands of Crores of Rupees are seized from cars, trucks and several other places and situations.
Nothing is ever heard of what happened to all these seizures. Why does not the CEC, and Government and NGOs, like ADR follow up on these and ensure that the crimes are taken to their logical conclusion?
All political parties cry hoarse about bringing back black money from abroad. What about the black money circulating within the country?
How much of this is corporate black money funding political party black money?
Let people say whether corporate funding of elections should be banned altogether, limited or freely allowed.
A TV debate had the former CEC seeking a ban on grounds that it make for unfair elections since, some parties, which do not follow the crony capitalist ideology stand to be placed at a disadvantage.
A Poll on this website to the right of the screen request your views.
An article in 'Tehelka' magazine titled, "The Dirty Underbelly of Election 2014" is revealing. The link to the article is here.
http://www.tehelka.com/the-dirty-underbelly-of-election-2014/
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The Dirty Underbelly of Election 2014 | Tehelka.com Money talks and crime pays, and the ongoing election is no different |
