TEHRAN, April 11 -Activists fear amendment to electoral law will make Indian politics opaque and vulnerable to foreign influence.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -Activists fear amendment to electoral law will make Indian politics opaque and vulnerable to foreign influence.
Political parties in India are now exempt from scrutiny of their past foreign fundings. They can now receive political donations from Indians living abroad as well as foreign companies with subsidiaries in India.
A controversial amendment to a law on foreign donations, with retrospective effect, was rushed through parliament by the government last month without any debate.
The key amendment to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, which in its previous version banned political parties from receiving foreign funding, has drawn criticism from activists.
India's two main political parties - the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress Party - were found guilty of breaking the law by a Delhi court in 2014. In its ruling, the court had said that the two parties accepted funds from companies owned by London-listed mining group Vedanta Resources between 2004 and 2012.
Source:Aljazeera
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