NEW DELHI, MARCH 18: The Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), a non-profit, plans to file a petition against six national political parties for non-compliance and contempt of the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) order dated June 3, 2013. The six parties are the Congress, BJP, BSP, NCP, CPI and CPI(M). In its order, the CIC had […]
A crucial point that came up during the investigations into the corporate espionage scam was that several corporates had made huge political donations to political parties so that they could lobby. It has been found during the investigations that corporates had lobbied with politicians to ensure posting of their favoured bureaucrats in some ministries so […]
This is ADR’s initiative to know a citizen’s view on the issue of Government funding to political parties.
A Case Study A total of 1698 political parties are registered with the Election Commission of India, out of which only 464 parties contested the Lok Sabha 2014 elections. So, the important question is ‘why are there so many parties registered with the ECI when three-fourth of them do not even participate in elections, the […]
उम्मीदवार दिखाते हैं कि उन्होंने तय सीमा से कम धन खर्च किया, तो फिर खर्च की सीमा बढ़ाने में तत्परता क्यों दिखाई गई?