CHANDIGARH: Former Union minister Manish Tewari today favoured linking of donations to political parties with Aadhaar in a bid to bring more transparency in political funding.
He also said corporates should not be in the business of funding the political process.
“Any donation made to any political party needs to have an address. Therefore, you need to link every donation to Aadhaar, whether a person is donating Rs 1 in cash or Rs 5,00,000 in cash.
“As long as there is Aadhaar linkage whereby the source of funding can be traced, I do not think we really need to go down this entire root of decreasing individual donations from Rs 20,000 to Rs 2,000, which only means you need to print 10 times more coupons,” Tewari said addressing the 13th annual national conference on electoral and political reforms organised by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). (AGENCIES)
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