Mitali Saran

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#ElectoralBonds Investigations 2: Modi govt lobbied secretly and mislead the Election Commissioners, hoping they would drop opposition to the bonds. When it failed, it lied to the Parliament. Caught doing so once, it lied again, and again. https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/electoral-bonds-narendra-modi-election-commission-opposition-arun-jaitley_in_5dce3cd1e4b01f982eff5c62

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nit_set/status/1196617071376748544

Electoral Bonds: Confidential EC Meeting Exposes Modi Govt's Lies To Parliament

A confidential note reveals that finance ministry officials intentionally misled the Election Commission in an effort to dilute its opposition to the electoral bond scheme.

Nov 19, 2019 at 5:50amMastodon Twitter Crossposter
Show threadMitali SaranNov 19, 2019

Yesterday the first of the #PaisaPolitics series showed how the government steamrolled the #RBI to create #ElectoralBonds.

Today, Part 2 shows how it steamrolled the #ElectionCommission, then lied and obfuscated about it in Parliament.

Great job, @[email protected] and @[email protected].

Show threadthedailybunkumNov 19, 2019
@MitaliSaran After reading then Secy SC Garg's explanation to ECs (and Nitin Sethi's counter-arguments), it seems that the only quasi-public domain in which an electoral bond is recorded is in political parties' filings to EC.