ED claims to have arrested cash courier sent from UAE to give CM Baghel ₹5 crore for election expenses. CM flags timing of ED raid as politically motivated.
Electoral bonds represent only a fraction of contributions parties receive or extract from businesses. India s politics, as practised, is dirty, and most of it calls for money. Officially received funds, whether by transparent cheque or opaque bond, cannot be used to fund such dirty activity, because that would be self-incriminating.
One "Rahul Gandhi K E S/o Valsamma" figures in an Election Commission list of persons disqualified from contesting polls for failing to lodge account of election expenses. Rahul Gandhi’s Namesake in Election Commission List of Disqualified Persons for Non-Reporting of Poll Expenses.