The Congress chief was responding to a question while interacting with students at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium about the need to bring funding for political parties under the transparency law. A student had asked how citizens could trust political parties that were bent on hiding the sources of their funds and spent huge amounts on fighting elections. Political outfits have collectively opposed attempts to bring them under the RTI law and the Modi government has submitted in the Supreme Court that parties should be exempt from the act. Rahul said he would accept the proposal to bring parties under RTI if the judiciary, executive, the media and corporate houses too were brought under the law. “By only bringing political parties which work for the people, we will be weakening the system,” he said.

Source: The Telegraph February 23, 2019 21:33 UTC