Ghost political parties: A new front for black money holders!

Demonetisation has had its effect on the nation and its people. But one never thought that it actually will unearth so much of corruption, fraud and black money. However, it is not like that the Indian government did not have much idea about it. They definitely had and thus they acted accordingly. Among several crooked ideas to hide bury black money, a new one has surfaced, which is undoubtedly one of the most subtle ways of avoiding the government’s attention – building fake political parties!

Apparently, The Election Commission of India has struck off 255 fake political parties from their list. In this way, these parties will not be able to contest elections. Shockingly, some of these ghost political parties have even used real addresses as well. For example, one of these parties has used 17 Akbar Road, New Delhi, which is the residential address of Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh.

Here’s a trivia for all of you who are still wondering how is this a big issue – there are almost 1800 unrecognised political parties in India and money laundering got easier over the years through them.

While registering a political party with the Election Commission of India, one does not have to go through a serious paperwork and other lengthy processes. It does not even require police verification. As a result, such dummy political parties keep popping up here and there.

We are all aware of the fact that if India would have spent even half of their black money for the country’s development, we would not have been referred to as one of the third world countries in today’s date.

Thus, in order to put a halt to this practice, the Election Commission of India has taken a number of steps.

Recently, the Commission cancelled the elections in two Assembly constituencies, namely Aravakuruchi and Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu for using excessive amount of money for campaigning.

The ministers blatantly lie about the fact that they spend within the permissible limit as penned down by the Commission. But the fact is, these ministers tend to spend several hundred crores of rupees during the campaign ahead of the elections.

• Ghost political parties
• Election Commission of India
• Demonetisation