Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said that it was not possible to run a political party without funds and added that the Centre had introduced the electoral bonds scheme, now struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, in 2017 with a ‘good intentions’.
The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said that all political parties need to sit together and deliberate if the Supreme Court gives any further direction on the matter.
He made the comments at an event organised by a media house in GIFT City near Gandhinagar on Friday.
When Arun Jaitely was (Union finance) minister, I was part of that discussion (regarding electoral bonds). No party can survive without resources. In some countries, governments fund political parties. There is no such system in India. Thus, we choose this system of financing political party ” said Gadkari on a question about electoral bonds.
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