158: The Problem With The Supreme Court Order on Electoral Bonds & Political Donations

On 12 April, the Supreme Court refused to grant a stay on the Electoral Bonds scheme, which allows individuals and companies to anonymously donate money to political parties. Who funds the party you support? Who’s paying the bills for the big shots who lead us?  The answers to these questions lie in the Electoral Bonds scheme.  We’ll be joined by two people on this podcast. The first, The Quint’s Poonam Agarwal who broke the story about how electoral bonds have hidden codes on them that allow parties to find out who makes a donation(which was used in court as evidence), and the second, our legal editor Vakasha Sachdev who’ll help explain the legalities of the story.   Listen to the podcast now.