nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/49b9227a3b96a43e DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240221s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|ger|| 10.59704/49b9227a3b96a43e doi ger 342 23 Jain, Anmol Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-4596-3911 On the Politics of Non-Transparent Electoral Funding in India - The Supreme Court’s Electoral Bonds Verdict Jain, Anmol Verfassungsblog 2024-02-21 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Last week, a five-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court delivered a significant verdict adjudicating the constitutionality of the Electoral Bond Scheme (“EBS”). The EBS introduced a novel method of making ‘anonymous’ donations to Indian political parties, both by individuals and a body of individuals. The judgment makes a democracy-enabling jurisprudential step in extending the right to information of voters to the details of political funding received by political parties in an effort to cement transparency and accountability as the central values of the electoral exercise. CC BY-SA 4.0 Election law Electoral Bonds Scheme India Indian Supreme Court (DE-588)1236319109 gnd India Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/on-the-politics-of-non-transparent-electoral-funding-in-india/ raw object