Transparency, disclosure, integrity and reform across India’s electoral system.
An attempt is being made to change the narrative so that the proposal is seen as something the Election Commission wants rather than an agenda the Modi government is actively…
Guests: Jagdeep S. Chhokar, founding members of Association for Democratic Reforms; Iftikhar Gilani , Chief of National Bureau DNA; Pradeep Kumar Singh, Senior Journalist; Saba Naqvi, columnist Anchor: Urmilesh
The demand that political parties function democratically must come from the people Suhas Palshikar gave sound advice to those who wish to set up and run political parties in an…
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…
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…
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…
Budget promises more transparency in poll funding. But why anonymous donors? The 2017-18 Union budget had an unusual feature, a section titled “Transparency in Electoral Funding”. Many commentators have hailed…
The problem of NPAs points to banks’ vulnerability to political pressure P. Vaidyanathan Iyer, in ‘Govt plans to defuse ticking bank bomb’ (The Indian Express, February 01), deserves congratulations for…
Because laws do not work, they are worked. The shenanigans of the UP government over the appointment of the Lokayukta (‘How Akhilesh Yadav tried to handpick Lokayukta until Supreme Court…