{"id":205249,"date":"2022-09-09T19:51:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=205249"},"modified":"2022-09-09T19:51:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:21:58","slug":"rupp-tough-ecs-move-to-weed-out-shady-political-parties-should-look-at-some-funding-provisions-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rupp-tough-ecs-move-to-weed-out-shady-political-parties-should-look-at-some-funding-provisions-too\/","title":{"rendered":"RUPP &#038; Tough: EC\u2019s move to weed out shady political parties should look at some funding provisions too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cRUPP &amp; Tough: EC<\/strong><strong>\u2019s <\/strong><strong>move to weed shady political parties should look at some funding provisions too\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong> on <strong>9th September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Salient features of Representation of People Act<\/p>\n<p><strong>News- <\/strong>The article explains the issues related with registered Unrecognised Political Parties(URPP) in India.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Income tax officials recently carried out raids on URPPs in a larger clean-up process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are some facts about Unrecognised Political Parties(URPPs)?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EC data shows that in 2021 there were 2796\u00a0 Registered unrecognised political parties. It is an increase of 300% over last two decades. In 2019, Lok Sabha elections, only 30% of these parties contested elections.<\/p>\n<p>100% tax exemptions are given to them subject to certain conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Like recognised parties they need not to disclose cash donations upto Rs. 2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does the system get abused?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Combination of tax exemptions, anonymity in funding and easy registration encourages formations of such parties.<\/p>\n<p>Introduction of electoral bonds is also problematic because it allows anonymity and problematic sources of funding political parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cRUPP &amp; Tough: EC\u2019s move to weed shady political parties should look at some funding provisions too\u201d published in The Times of India on 9th September 2022. Syllabus: GS2- Salient features of Representation of People Act News- The article explains the issues related with registered Unrecognised Political&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rupp-tough-ecs-move-to-weed-out-shady-political-parties-should-look-at-some-funding-provisions-too\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RUPP &#038; Tough: EC\u2019s move to weed out shady political parties should look at some funding provisions too<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-205249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704773324},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}