This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Prateek Goyal and Basant Kumar.
Both Prateek and Basant share their experience of investigating the patterns in political funding in India, and decoding the State Bank of India’s data dump on electoral bonds.
They discuss how they found out about “a very strange pattern” of donation to political parties, with some companies donating or lapping up their donations after raids by central agencies. In some cases, the companies’ donations even surpassed their profit growth and revenue.
Tune in.
Timecodes
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:21 - Donations to parties
00:05:18 - Electoral bonds
00:25:22 - Recommendations
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Project Electoral Bond (Report)
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Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, and recorded by Anil Kumar.
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