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Electoral bonds: Choosing not to rock the boat Apex court Playing it safe   -  The Hindu× During every election, the issue of electoral bonds comes to the fore, and there is a discussion around the most appropriate mode of political funding. Late Arun Jaitley, the then Finance Minister, argued that since electoral bonds (his brain child) had to be bought from SBI either through cheque/draft/electronic payment, the festering problem of cash haunting our elections would be a thing of the past. But cash still rules the roost. And big corporates prefer the electoral trusts over electoral bonds. With the ongoing five Assembly elections, the Supreme Court was requested by the Association for Democratic Rights (ADR) to stay the issue of bonds from April 1 to April 10 2021. The Election Commission, which earlier had its reservations, did a volte face now and said such bonds would curb the use of cash for political funding. But we know that bank deposits per se don’t represent white

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