NL Cheatsheet: Finance Bill 2018 and its unsavoury milky centre
Arun Jaitley wants to make dubious political funding legal… again!
The recently-introduced Finance Bill 2018 proposes to white-wash illegal donations made by foreign sources to political parties. That too retrospectively from 1976 onwards! Meghnad explains the convoluted story behind this curious proposition. And he takes this opportunity to outrage about why he thinks Kinder Joy is shit. Just like this amendment.
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