India: Supreme Court orders State Bank to reveal identity of political party donors
In India, the Supreme Court orders for the second time the immediate end of the anonymity of political donations.
The state-run bank State Bank of India asked for until June to publish the identity of donors to political parties, i.e. after the current elections.
The Supreme Court only gave him two days.
Hindu nationalists from Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during the 2019 election campaign. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
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With our correspondent in Bangalore
,
Côme Bastin
It is a
political and legal saga
that has opened since the Supreme Court declared the system of anonymous party financing in India unconstitutional.
A new episode was written this Monday March 11 when the State Bank of India was sharply reframed by the judges.
The public bank, which holds these account lines, required several months to match a little more than 20,000 sums paid with their donors.
A delay considered very unreasonable by many experts, and an opinion shared by the Court.
“
Just open the lid
”
“
This information can be provided quickly.
You just need to open the sealed cover and gather the details
,” the judge in the case told the Supreme Court, which ordered the bank to comply on Tuesday.
The electoral commission will have to publish the donations on its official website on Friday March 15.
The affair could impact the current political campaign, while it was the government of Narendra Modi which established the anonymity of donations in 2017. This rare clash between banking and judicial institutions in any case reinforces those who accuse the government of have something to hide.
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