Political parties should accept public scrutiny

Political parties in India have for long defied any attempts at transparency. Citizens have little or no information about their internal functioning; their funding is opaque and for all purposes, they are like a black box whose working is not known. Efforts to change this have not worked. In this, India is unique: In most well-functioning democracies, funding —both sources and expenditure—are publicly available; in India, secrecy is the rule.

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