Govt must disclose electoral bonds details in House: Congress

Addressing a press conference, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said RTI replies have shown that rules regarding the scheme were flouted at the PMO’s instance.

“It was not a scheme for transparency in political funding, it was a scheme which was deliberately created to extort money and to force corporates or accept donations without disclosing identity of obliging corporate for government patronage and consideration,” senior Congress leader Anand Sharma said.

“The government must disclose all information and place it in both Houses of Parliament, of electoral bearer bonds issued and which political party got how much… Only when the identity is revealed of those who have donated hundreds of crores… the nation will come to know which decisions of the government, which policies of the Modi government benefited those corporates…” Sharma said.