What is the B-Form?
There is a host of forms one needs to fill for contesting an election in…
Browsing: Political Parties
Here is the list of documents to be submitted by Candidates contesting in Assembly or Parliament Elections
Every candidate willing to contest the election to the Parliament or a State Legislature has…
Disclosure of Foreign Assets & ITR of 5-years are now mandatory for Lok Sabha & Assembly election contestants
The government has recently amended the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961, on the insistence of the…
Understanding ‘Electoral Bonds’
[orc] The government notified the ‘Electoral Bonds’ scheme that enables anyone to make anonymous donations…
Since Independence, every ‘No-Confidence’ motion taken up by the Lok Sabha was defeated except one
The BJP led NDA government faced its first ‘No-Confidence’ motion on 20th July 2018 and…
More than 50% of the Income of National Parties in 2017-18 from ‘Unknown Sources’
Greater transparency in political funding has been a long standing demand of the civil society.…
Pending Government Assurances in the Lok Sabha at 30%
Citizens often complain that Political Parties fail to keep up the promises made during election…
What is the expenditure incurred for conducting ‘Lok Sabha’ Elections?
Election expenditure is often cited as one of the reasons for holding simultaneous elections. But…
1951 to 2014 – How did the Lok Sabha election numbers change?
India has had 16 general elections to the Lok Sabha so far. The number of…
Number of Political parties increased twofold in the last 10 years, crosses the 2000 mark
Data from the ECI indicates that the registration of political parties increases disproportionately during election years.…
