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Funding the power trip: All political parties, except CPI, rely heavily on unknown sources

Such anonymous benefactors account for 71 per cent of the income of the six national parties over the past decade

Funding the power trip

Business Standard
Even as the country’s top political parties are busy pontificating on the menace of black money, they remain one of the main receptacles and distributors of unaccounted money. The numbers below expose this hypocrisy. All parties, except CPI, rely heavily on unknown sources. Such anonymous benefactors account for 71 per cent of the income of the six national parties over the past decade. While Congress was leading the game till recently, BJP is fast catching up.

Funding the power trip


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First Published: Nov 18 2016 | 10:03 AM IST

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