New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- The Centre is examining the Supreme Court order to strike down the 2018 electoral bond scheme of political funding and will decide whether it will challenge the ruling, Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said on Friday.
"We are examining it," Meghwal told HT when asked if the government is going to challenge the top court's verdict that came ahead of the Lok Sabha elections expected to take place in April or May this year.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down the electoral bond scheme, declaring it to be "unconstitutional" because it completely anonymised contributions made to political parties, and added that restricting black money or illegal election financing - some of the articulated objectives of the sc...