The article, “The devil is in the fine print” (Feb.16), raises the core issue — how do we hold political parties accountable to the promises they make in their manifesto on eliminating corruption? The national parties in particular appear to be the same when it comes to probity and transparency in public life. Why do they fight shy of scrutiny under the Right to Information Act? And why are they exempt in some instances from income tax scrutiny?
The bottomline is that we need to have educated youth joining politics and try to cleanse the political system.
Anusha Singh Rai,
New Delhi
The government needs to introduce meaningful reforms such as having a cap of ₹20 crore or 20% of donations from anonymous sources. Electoral bonds should be done away with as I feel that they will be used as a ruse to increase secrecy in funding rather than bringing about transparency. The government needs to shed its double standards on cleansing the system.
Chandrasekhar Khot,
Chikkalagundi, Karnataka
