The recent advertisement by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat House Committee reiterates that our ‘public’ representatives and ‘public’ servants do not consider public money to be their own, and thus show little accountability in its expenditure. The issue of salaries for members of parliament (MPs) and members of legislative assemblies (MLAs) has been a matter of […]
The government appears to be seeking to counter news reports that are critical of the planned amendment to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act. Since The Wire broke the story of the proposed surreptitious amendment of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act 2010 (FCRA) to let the BJP and Congress off the hook for illegally accepting donations from foreign companies, there has […]
Given the obvious conflict of interest, the party MPs must make the honourable decision to opt out of voting on the amendments. It was reported in December 2015 that a “proposed amendment to section 2 (1) (h) of FCRA, 2010, has been sent to the law and finance ministries for their comments,” which would “make funding easier […]