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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman defends electoral bonds, suggesting they may have been donated to regional parties, not just ruling party.

All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday demanded a Supreme Court-monitored special investigation into the electoral bonds scheme through which the ruling BJP has encashed ₹6,065 crore over five years and said the bank accounts of the BJP must be frozen till the completion of the probe.

Rahul Gandhi termed the scrapped electoral bonds scheme brought in by the BJP-led Union government as the “biggest extortion racket in the world.”

Party of Indian prime minister was by far biggest beneficiary of electoral bonds, which were struck down as unconstitutional

Data the electoral bonds was released by the State Bank of India and published by the Election Commission of India on March 14 following an order by the Supreme Court. 

The Congress asked Sitharaman to release the full data on donations a day after Election Commission posted the entire list of donors and political parties. Read further on Dynamite News:

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