How can electoral funding be ensured to maintain the integrity of democracy? (10 marks, 150 words)

Money power in election:

(i) Transparency: Hamper the open flow of information about election-mandated expenditure as per RTI.

(ii) Black money: Handle money in election blasts the upheaval of actual expenditure.

(iii) Fairness: Fairness money & asset havens → criminals & politics.

(iv) Democratic accountability: parties get to be prime election registration as money with the election.

(v) Winning parties for not comprising toward private eroded democratic values → eroded public participation, laxer morality.

Solution: WELI-state funding & Hydra fund. Diman Assumi Committee-state funding. EEI new SOP are disclosure. Supreme Court—PUCL, ADR cases. Amendment: information.

— GAURAV KUMAR · AIR 377