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Electoral Bonds: The Safeguards Of Indian Democracy Are Crumbling

Milan Vaishnav, a senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C, writes in an opinion piece that the way in which the Narendra Modi government ignored warnings on electoral bonds by the Reserve Bank of India, the Election Commission of India and even lied to the Parliament shows that the very institutions that are supposed to keep a governemnt in check are in crisis.


Vaishav says that by methodically steamrolling these institutions, the Modi government went back on a crucial poll promise it had made during its campaigns. The Modi government had said it would reverse the country’s institutional decline and root out political corruption. Vaishnav writes that Nitin Sethi's reports on electorial bonds published in Huffpost India as part of the #PaisaPolitics series, shows only the reverse of what Modi promised actually happened. 

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