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Take Back Our Government
A few months ago the Modi government made it possible for big money to literally purchase our political system. Hidden in the Finance Act, 2017, are provisions that allow for secret "donations" by "corporates" without any limit. The result will be devastating - we won't even know who's running our government.
We need to stop this. If you believe, as we do, in transparency and democracy, please sign our petition for these changes to be repealed:
Also spread awareness of this issue by forwarding this message, and by using the hashtag #BharatSarkarBachao on Twitter and Facebook.
Want to know more? Read how the Election Commission called electoral bonds a retrograde step, how the outgoing CEC said they will rob polls of transparency, and also read about how these bonds are a new form of corruption.
Your email address and mobile number will not be made public.
To: PM Narendra Modi
From: [Your Name]
Dear Prime Minister Modi,
Your government has thrown open the door for big companies to legally bribe our political parties, and to hide their black money like never before. In the Finance Act of 2017, your government brought in "electoral bonds" - which will allow companies to pay money to political parties without either the party or the company having to disclose the donation. You also removed all limits on how much can be given. Tomorrow Adani or Ambani can pay your party thousands of crores and no one will even know. It will be a giant, legalised bribery scam of the kind India has never seen before.
Even the opposition parties voted against this in the Rajya Sabha. But using the BJP's majority, the government overruled them.
The Lokpal has not yet been appointed. The Right to Information Act has been systematically weakened. Nothing has been done about companies sitting on lakhs of crores of bad loans. While every citizen is being subjected to tracking in the name of stopping black money, your officials let Vijay Mallya simply walk out of India. Vodafone, Cairns India and other companies accused of evading thousands of crores in taxes are sitting pretty. The law had already been amended to make it possible for foreign companies to "donate" to our parties. Now this policy will throw the door wide open to corporates and wealthy individuals to hijack our democracy.
Are these the actions of a government that is actually committed to transparency and honesty?
Enough is enough. We call upon you to immediately:
1. First, announce that you will pass a new law that makes all donations to any political party, in money or in kind, public.
2. Second, until that date, make all accounts of your party and all the donations it has received public.
#BharatSarkarBachao
Told ya so!
Modi is crook.
A few months ago the Modi government made it possible for big money to literally purchase our political system. Hidden in the Finance Act, 2017, are provisions that allow for secret "donations" by "corporates" without any limit. The result will be devastating - we won't even know who's running our government.
We need to stop this. If you believe, as we do, in transparency and democracy, please sign our petition for these changes to be repealed:
Also spread awareness of this issue by forwarding this message, and by using the hashtag #BharatSarkarBachao on Twitter and Facebook.
Want to know more? Read how the Election Commission called electoral bonds a retrograde step, how the outgoing CEC said they will rob polls of transparency, and also read about how these bonds are a new form of corruption.
Your email address and mobile number will not be made public.
To: PM Narendra Modi
From: [Your Name]
Dear Prime Minister Modi,
Your government has thrown open the door for big companies to legally bribe our political parties, and to hide their black money like never before. In the Finance Act of 2017, your government brought in "electoral bonds" - which will allow companies to pay money to political parties without either the party or the company having to disclose the donation. You also removed all limits on how much can be given. Tomorrow Adani or Ambani can pay your party thousands of crores and no one will even know. It will be a giant, legalised bribery scam of the kind India has never seen before.
Even the opposition parties voted against this in the Rajya Sabha. But using the BJP's majority, the government overruled them.
The Lokpal has not yet been appointed. The Right to Information Act has been systematically weakened. Nothing has been done about companies sitting on lakhs of crores of bad loans. While every citizen is being subjected to tracking in the name of stopping black money, your officials let Vijay Mallya simply walk out of India. Vodafone, Cairns India and other companies accused of evading thousands of crores in taxes are sitting pretty. The law had already been amended to make it possible for foreign companies to "donate" to our parties. Now this policy will throw the door wide open to corporates and wealthy individuals to hijack our democracy.
Are these the actions of a government that is actually committed to transparency and honesty?
Enough is enough. We call upon you to immediately:
1. First, announce that you will pass a new law that makes all donations to any political party, in money or in kind, public.
2. Second, until that date, make all accounts of your party and all the donations it has received public.
#BharatSarkarBachao
Told ya so!
Modi is crook.
