The Congress party has expressed happiness over the Supreme Court’s decision declaring electoral bonds unconstitutional. Former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said that the Supreme Court’s decision declaring electoral bonds unconstitutional is historic and welcome. Electoral bonds worked to increase corruption. This ended the transparency of political donations and directly benefited the ruling party BJP.Gehlot said that he has repeatedly said that electoral bonds are one of the biggest scams of independent India. The decision of the Supreme Court has proved that electoral bonds are a big scam of the NDA government. He said that this decision came late, but it was a very important decision to save the democracy of the country.
BJP misused power and took unaccounted political donations: Dotasra
At the same time, State Congress President Govind Singh Dotasara said that electoral bonds are one of the biggest scams of the BJP government. He said, “The BJP misused power and took unaccounted political donations. Benefits were given to close industrialists in exchange for election donations, which is the biggest corruption of this government.”
He added, “The right to information was violated by eliminating transparency under the guise of electoral bonds. Every citizen of the country should have the right to information about the funding received by political parties.”