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Mainstream, Vol 63 No 6, February 8, 2025

Justice Delayed is Justice Denied | Chaitanya Pandey, Shashank Singh and Sandeep Pandey

Saturday 8 February 2025, by Sandeep Pandey

In 2017 the Electoral Bond Scheme was introduced. In the name of making funding of political parties transparent, the information of purchaser of electoral bond and the political party it was donated to was made opaque even to the Election Commission of India. ECI objected to the possible influencing of policy making by unchecked foreign funding. But it took Supreme Court eight years to strike down the EBS, holding it unconstitutional. Even then it did not seize the illegally accumulated funds. Bhartiya Janata Party which benefited the most from this scheme, as was expected, didn