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State Funding of Elections
Recently, there has been an increased talk about bringing the State Funding of elections in India.
Key Points
- State funding of polls imply the government providing funds to parties and candidates to fight elections, replacing the existing system of ploughing in private or party funds for the job.
- Its main purpose is to make it unnecessary for contestants to take money from powerful moneyed interests so that they can remain clean.
- For this to happen, state funding needs to be accompanied by strict accounting and transparency.
- The share of votes gained in the previous elections and the number of seats in legislative bodies is also used as a criterion.
- Usually, a lower limit for votes or share of votes is kept to prevent misuse of the provision by floating new parties that contest a large number of seats.
- Current state funding measures include provision of free time on public broadcasters for national parties in general elections and for registered state parties in state legislature elections.
- Besides this, national parties are provided some benefits like security, office space, utility subsidies etc.
- Another form of indirect state funding available in India is that registered political parties do not have to pay income tax.
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