Decode Politics: What has the Opposition said on electoral bonds

AFTER A five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court Thursday held the electoral bonds scheme as “unconstitutional”, the Opposition was unanimous in welcoming it.

Sitaram Yechury, the general secretary of the CPI(M), which was among the petitioning parties against the scheme, called it a “historic” judgment. “The details of those who bought these bonds and those who received them to be made public by March should expose murky deal makings of the ruling party,” Yechury posted on X.

Welcome this unanimous judgment of the SC bench scrapping the electoral bonds that legalise political corruption.
The details of those who bought these bonds and those who received them to be made public by March should expose murky deal makings of the ruling party. pic.twitter.com/kDqrXs7Od6

— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) <a href=«https://twitter.com/SitaramYechury/status/1758049283968729516?ref_src=» https: class="" rel=«nofollow, noopener» target="_blank">February 15, 2024

Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge said: “We hope that the Modi government will stop resorting to such mischievous ideas in future and listens to the Supreme Court, so that democracy, transparency and level-playing field persists.”

On the day of the launching of Electoral Bonds scheme the Congress party had called it opaque and undemocratic. Subsequently in its 2019 Manifesto Congress Party promised to scrap Modi Govt’s dubious scheme.

We welcome the decision of the Supreme Court today, which has struck…

— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) <a href=«https://twitter.com/kharge/status/1758023559992246601?ref_src=» https: class="" rel=«nofollow, noopener» target="_blank">February 15, 2024

We take a look at what political parties have said on on the scheme over the years:

Since the