Election season is just around the corner. It is a well known fact that countries such as China and Russia are known to meddle in the elections of other countries in order to install a puppet government of their choice. China has been doing it rampantly in Africa and Russia has done it in the USA elections of 2016. It has happened in India as well, when dummy charitable institutions were used to divert funds illegally. This source has been plugged by the BJP which shut down 30,000 bogus NGO’s and have amended various acts and have informed various agencies to keep a strict vigil. While social media is the new threat to elections, it is the deployment of foreign funds into elections that is the real threat to the country’s democracy. We discuss some ways in which one can illegally route money through foreign and deploy it for funding elections and also some safeguards against such dubious methods.
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