• Donations of over ₹2,000 to parties cannot be anonymous: Election Commission

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    Donations of over ₹2,000 to parties cannot be anonymous: Election Commission

    Political parties are required to provide the poll watchdog with information about cash contributions of 20,000 or more, indicating the source of the payment. color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">

    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Digital Desk: The Election Commission of
    India has proposed a Draft Amendment, lowering the current cap of 20,000, which
    states that cash contributions to political parties over 2,000 rupees cannot be
    made anonymously. According to those with knowledge of the situation, it has
    also attempted to cap monetary contributions at $20 crore or 20% (whichever is
    lower) of the total donations collected by a party.



    mso-themecolor:text1">Rajiv Kumar, the Chief Election Commissioner, suggested
    changing the Representation of the People (RP) Act in a letter to law minister
    Kiren Rijiju in order to "clear the political funding landscape."

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    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Action against unrecognized parties was the
    initial move. On condition of anonymity, a person with knowledge of the
    situation stated that the Commission is currently trying to overhaul the way
    recognized parties operate and crack down on black money and tax evasion.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Political parties are required to provide the
    poll watchdog with information about cash contributions of 20,000 or more,
    indicating the source of the payment.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">The election board has also advised that each
    contender open a different bank account just for the election. "Two
    separate accounts must be formed for each election if a candidate wishes to run
    first as an MLA and afterwards as an MP. Basically, the candidate needs to
    register a separate bank account for each poll they are contesting. In this
    manner, the Commission may monitor the candidates' spending caps and increase
    system openness," the source claimed.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">The Commission discovered that although
    several parties claimed they received no donations, their audited accounting
    statement revealed they had received sizable sums, demonstrating extensive cash
    transactions below the threshold limit of 20,000.



    mso-themecolor:text1">The Commission has requested that digital transactions or
    account payee cheque transfers be made mandatory for all expenses above 2,000
    to a single entity or person in order to increase transparency into the
    expenditure of individual candidates running for office and to eliminate
    "fungibility" in this expenditure.



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    mso-themecolor:text1">The amendment will have to be made in Rule 89 of the
    Conduct of Election Rules, 1961.



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    mso-themecolor:text1">To ensure that no foreign donations violate the RP Act
    and the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act of 2010, the Commission has also
    sought "electoral changes" to prevent this from happening. The
    current contribution report style is "not equipped" to seek out more
    information, and there is currently no means to expressly separate first
    international donations.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">The decision was made shortly after the EC
    continued its crackdown on these organizations for failing to comply with the
    requirements of the RP Act by delisting 284 nonexistent but registered
    unrecognized political parties (RUPPs) and declaring 253 others inactive,
    according to the polling organization. With the most recent order, there are
    now 537 political parties that the poll panel has warned for violating
    electoral laws.



    mso-themecolor:text1">As part of a tax evasion investigation into RUPPs, the
    income tax authorities conducted searches at more than 50 locations across
    different states on September 7. On September 11, the IT department said that
    donations to Gujarat's RUPPs totaled more than 4,000 crore in the previous
    three fiscal years.



    color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">The Commission reported in May that 199 RUPPs
    utilized income tax exemptions totaling 445 crore in 2018–19 and 219 RUPPs
    totaling 609 crore in 2019–20.



    mso-themecolor:text1">"In what ways will the Commission oversee cash? Only
    if it is declared can it be monitored, according to Jagdeep Chhokar of the
    nonprofit Association Democratic Reforms. "This law cannot be put into
    effect. The Commission's underlying assumption is that individuals will openly
    disclose how much money they donated to politics or how much money political
    parties got.



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    mso-themecolor:text1">“In any case, the money declared by political parties is
    the tip of the iceberg,” Chhokar said. “A lot more the money is spent on the
    polls.”



     

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