Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Suspicious bank transactions, digital payments under scanner to curb freebies
Follow Lok Sabha Election 2024 dates LIVE updates here Rajiv Kumar was speaking at a press conference held on Saturday to announce the schedule of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. He said, "NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) will look at if there are more demands in the payments through wallets.
We will be looking all wallets transactions." ALSO READ: Lok Sabha Election 2024 dates out : 10 key highlights of seven-phase voting He said every agency, including the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Excise Department, state police, Border Security Force (BSF), are put on alert to curb any transaction, whether through borders or elsewise. After the electoral bond scheme was scrapped by the Supreme Court, Rajiv Kumar said the country needs to “find solutions through institutional machanism where donors' (of electoral bonds) privacy is also considered".
He addressed the challenge of unaccounted money in elections and said, “…how do we also control the donation in the unaccounted form is something the entire nations has to work together...(on) how donor's privacy is also protected, he is not harassed...how it (the cash) is more and more white...one has to think of it and I am sure some better system will evolve," Kumar said. The CEC said political party is required to to make declaration to the Elections Commission on the contributions they receive.
“...political party is required to to make declaration to us on the contributions they receive. Also in the annual accounts, how much they have collected and how much they have spent .
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