Electoral bonds are bearer bonds, introduced as a mechanism for individuals and companies to donate money to political parties in India in 2018 by the BJP government. They were introduced without consultation and ignoring objections of the Election Commission and the RBI. Electoral bonds worth Rs.
'Though the Ministry of Finance had thought about sharing details of the electoral bond scheme with political parties and seeking the public’s comments on it, the idea was dropped after a presentation before the prime minister on August 21, 2017... RTI activist Bharadwaj says it is apparent that during the meeting with the prime minister, the decision to not consult political parties and not circulate the draft scheme to all national and state parties with a 15-day window to seek their comments was taken.
'The Prime Minister’s Office under Narendra Modi reportedly ordered for rules about electoral bonds – which the Centre itself had notified just two months earlier – to be broken in March 2018, ahead of assembly elections in six states. The broken rules, Nitin Sethi reports for HuffPost India, were first called an ‘exception’ but quickly turned into the norm. The report is based on government documents obtained under the Right to Information Act by transparency activist Commodore Lokesh Batra (retired)...
'...Journalist Nitin Sethi, who authored the report, has earlier on November 18-19, published two reports in Huffpost India, revealing the stringent opposition from the Reserve Bank of India, the Election Commission and opposition parties on the unveiling of the controversial electoral bearer bonds. It has been revealed that the Narendra Modi-led government dismissed the Election Commission of India’s strident opposition to electoral bonds, lied to the Indian Parliament and finally resorted to a hurried cover-up when it's misstatements were caught...'
'INDIA’S ECONOMY is “doing very well” and the indicators are visible — weddings are not being called off, and trains and airports are full, Union MoS for Railways Suresh Angadi said Friday. Responding to a question from The Indian Express on the state of the economy, Angadi said “common people are happy” but some are trying to “damage the name” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on this issue...'
'The Supreme Court on Thursday gave a clean chit to the Narendra Modi government on the purchase of 36 fully loaded Rafale fighter jets from French company Dassault Aviation, rejecting the plea for registration of an FIR by the CBI for alleged commission of cognisable offence in the deal. The apex court dismissed the pleas seeking review of the December 14, 2018 verdict in which it had said that there was no occasion to doubt the decision-making process in the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets...'
'An EU non-profit group researching disinformation campaigns has said that the controversial European parliamentarians’ visit to Kashmir is linked to a network of fake local media networks and think-tanks across the world. Last month, the Indian government allowed a group of Members of European Parliament, a majority of whom were from far-right parties, to visit Kashmir for the first time since the state was put under lockdown following the reading down of Article 370...
Submitted by narendramodifacts on Wed, 11/13/2019 - 21:49
To answer this question we first need to define "corruption". Definitions of corruption can be more or less broad. The Merriam-Webster definition is perhaps the broadest: "dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people"[1].
'On November 10, a day after the Babri Masjid verdict was pronounced, the topic #SuspendMadhuKishwar started trending on Twitter in India in response to the inflammatory tweet posted by Madhu Kishwar, which has now been removed by Twitter, presumably after many users reported the tweet.
