PM Modi counters claims of BJP 'setback' due to SBI electoral bond data release: 'There may be imperfections but...'

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PM Modi said, "Tell me what have we done that we will face a setback? I am sure who are happy about it [releasing details of electoral bonds] today and feeling proud over it are going to repent." PM Modi questioned if any agency could share details of expenditures made during the election before 2014. "I want to ask, there much expenditure in elections before 2014. Which is the agency which can inform - from where the money came, where it was spent and who spent," he said.

The Prime Minister added, "Modi formed electoral bonds because of which you are able to find out who received the bonds, then they received and who donated them. Initially, we didn't know about it. You are able to get the trail because we have electoral bonds." He, however, noted that "not every arrangement is perfect, there may be imperfections.

We can correct these imperfections". WATCH PM Modi's full interview here The electoral Bonds scheme, brought by the Centre in 2017, was scrapped by the Supreme Court in February this year. The scheme allowed people to make any amount of donation to political parties of their choice while maintaining anonymity.