Should Voters not Know how Political Parties are Funded?

Attorney General KK Venugopal's claim before the Supreme Court that voters need not know how political parties are funded so long as the money is legal, has astonished many. In this interview, Prabir Purkayastha and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta discuss these claims and also the other claims about the so-called transparency of the electoral bonds system.

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Link of the recording of the 70-minute deposition on 14 February 2022 by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta to the Supreme Court-appointed committee headed by Justice (retired) R V Raveendran on allegations of misuse of the Israeli Pegasus spyware on Indian citizens: https://pegasus-india-investigation.in/depositions/paranjoy-guha-thakurta-statement/