The Supreme Court of India has issued notices to six political parties of India asking them to respond on why they should not be treated as public authority. The SC has also sought responses from the centre and the Election Commission, also the largest political outfits in the country, BJP and congress to respond on a petition to oversee all regional and national political parties as public authorities and to being them under the Right to Information Act (RTI).
Reacting on a plea filed by an NGO named The Association for Democratic Reforms, the SC has also sought a direction that the political parties should be asked to reveal all their donations of amounts even below Rs 20,000. Former AAP leader and popular lawyer Prashant Bhushan took the NGO’s case and argued that political parties were public authorities and must be amenable to the RTI Act.
As per the law, political parties do not have to pay income tax for donations under 20,000. In its petition, the NGO stated that these political parties receive crores of donations from the private bodies and trusts and they do not reveal any information. The NGO also sought declaration of all the information regarding the donors making donations to these parties.
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