NEW DELHI: The Centre and the EC took contrary stands in the Supreme Court on Wednesday over political funding with the Government wanting to maintain anonymity of the donors of electoral bonds and the poll panel batting for revealing the names of donors for transparency.
The top court was hearing the plea of NGO, Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR)’, which has sought interim reliefs that either the issuance of electoral bonds be stayed or the names of the donors be made public to ensure transparency in the poll process.
The Centre told a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi that the electoral bond scheme was meant to “eradicate black money in political funding” and the anonymity of donors is to be maintained for various reasons such as fear of repercussions on a firm if the other political party or group wins. (AGENCIES)
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