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Nitin Sethis investigation, published on HuffPost India this week, showed how the Narendra Modi-led government brought untraceable funds into Indian politics.
The State Bank of India (SBI) maintains a secret number-based record of donors who buy electoral bonds, and the political parties they donate to. Law enforcement agencies can request access to this record.
Congress said the government must disclose full donor information, who donated crores to the BJP, and place this information before Parliament.
People took to Twitter to troll the Narendra Modi government for lying to the Parliament and the EC over electoral bonds before state elections.
The Congress reacted to HuffPost Indias report on the involvement of Modi's office in approving illegal sale of electoral bonds just before critical state assembly elections.
GVL Narasimha Rao was reacting to HuffPost India's investigative series, by journalist Nitin Sethi, on how the Modi government brought untraceable funds into Indian politics.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office directed the finance ministry to break its own rules to approve the special and illegal sale of electoral bonds just before critical state assembly elections.
Former Rajya Sabha MP & CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said, the party's focus would be primarily on trying to get an immediate stay on the operation of electoral bonds scheme from the SC.
On Tuesday, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh called for the scheme to scrapped while MP Rajeev Gowda called it legalised corruption.
In 2017, the Modi government introduced a secretive way for anyone, including corporations and foreign entities, to funnel money into political parties anonymously.