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Defence minister and senior BJP chief Rajnath Singh throughout an unique interview to Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi on April 5, 2024. (Image/News18)
The defence minister and senior BJP chief additionally questioned the deserves of exposing particulars concerning which firm donated to which celebration below the now-banned scheme
Defence minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Rajnath Singh in an unique interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi on Friday rejected the opposition’s allegations a few connection between sure firms donating funds to the BJP below the now-outlawed electoral bonds scheme and motion by central businesses against them.
“The future will tell what will happen now. Time will tell how right were we by bringing electoral bonds,” he mentioned concerning the scheme.
In a landmark verdict delivered on February 15, a five-judge structure bench of the Supreme Court scrapped the Centre’s electoral bonds scheme that allowed nameless political funding whereas calling it “unconstitutional” and ordered disclosure of knowledge by the Election Commission of the donors, the quantities donated by them, and the recipients.
The authorities carried out the scheme in 2018. It was launched by the Narendra Modi-led NDA authorities in Gazette Notification No. 20 dated January 2, 2018, in order to “cleanse the system of political funding in the country”.
“Tell me, I want to ask you, which company has donated to which party, should that be disclosed?” mentioned Rajnath Singh throughout the interview. “Tomorrow, they will say who voted for which party should also be made public. Will you accept this? Any country, where there is healthy democracy, will it accept this? Who is giving their vote to which political party, to which person, should this also be disclosed?”
Opposition events have cited the revelations following the Supreme Court order to assault the federal government, claiming that many companies going through felony probes have turned out to be large consumers of those bonds overwhelmingly in favour of the BJP, with Congress chief Rahul Gandhi even terming it an “extortion scheme”.
“But did the cases stop because of these bonds?” requested Rajnath Singh. “There are many such companies against which there are charges, but during elections, they donate.”
The businesses will hold doing their work, he added.
Asked if there was a connection between the donations from a few of these firms coming after motion against them, the minister mentioned, “It should not be seen from this angle. It has no connection with that.”
