Subhechcha Ganguly 
In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on electoral bonds, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday that the programme was an attempt to reduce the dominance of black money in Indian politics. He added that rather than being abandoned, the plan ought to have been enhanced.”In order to eliminate the impact of illicit money on Indian politics, electoral bonds were created. Everyone is required to accept the Supreme Court’s ruling. I accept the Supreme Court’s ruling in its entirety. However, I believe that the electoral linkages could have been strengthened rather than entirely eliminated,” Shah stated during a conversation at the India Today Conclave.
A five-judge Constitution panel struck down the Center’s electoral bonds programme, which permitted anonymous political finance, in a historic decision rendered on February 15, declaring it to be “unconstitutional”. Additionally, it mandated that the State Bank of India (SBI) reveal information on donors, the sums they contributed, and the beneficiaries.The data on electoral bonds was posted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on March 14, one day ahead of the date stipulated by the Supreme Court in the well-known case.
In the conversation on Friday, Shah mentioned that there is a belief that the BJP benefited from the electoral bonds programme as it is currently in power. “I want to be very clear about where I stand on it. The BJP owns about ₹6,000 crore of the ₹20,000 crore in total electoral bonds. What became of the remaining bonds? TMC received ₹1,600 crore; Congress received ₹1,400 crore; BRS received ₹1,200 crore; BJD received ₹750 crore; and DMK received ₹639 crore, according to Shah.
