Political Donations Should Be Linked to Aadhaar: Manish Tewari

Tewari also voiced that corporates should not be in the business of funding the political process.

Former Union minister Manish Tewari on Sunday favoured linking of donations to political parties with Aadhaar in a bid to bring more transparency in political funding.

He also voiced that corporates should not be in the business of funding the political process.

"Any donation made to any political party needs to have an address. Therefore, you need to link every donation to Aadhaar, whether a person is donating Re 1 in cash or Rs 5,00,000 in cash.

Addressing the 13th annual national conference on electoral and political reforms organised by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), Tewari said:

As long as there is Aadhaar linkage, whereby the source of funding can be traced, I do not think we really need to go down this entire root of decreasing individual donations from Rs 20,000 to Rs 2,000, which only means you need to print 10 times more coupons.