Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday spoke on the dichotomy between transparency and privacy confronting the country, at a lecture held in the memory of former Speaker of Delhi Assembly Charti Lal Goel.
Speaking on “New India and Political Transparency” Mr. Jaitley said, “There is no transparency in current political funding and there is no clean money. But we are also trying to run a cleanliness campaign related to it.”
Transparency in political funding, the Union Finance Minister said, was the anathema for “unclean money.”
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“Transparency and privacy, there is a confrontation between the two today; there must be balance and reconciliation in it,” he said.
The citizens, he further said, needed to “believe in the decisions of the government” because governance could not coexist in an atmosphere of disbelief.