When one party has access to 90% resources, time to deliberate state election funding: Manmohan Singh
(WorldNews India)

Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Sunday stressed the need for state funding of elections "at a time when only one party has access to 90 percent resources." Manmohan Singh, who was speaking at the birth centenary memorial meeting of veteran CPI leader Indrajit Gupta, said, "One of the widely cited scholarly works of Indrajit Gupta ji was his report on the funding of the election." "I was privileged to be a member of the committee headed by him. He argued for the role of state funding in the election. Today, when only one party has access to 90 percent of the election fund, such ideas need to be...