Election Commission Allows Sharad Pawar’s NCP to Accept Public Contributions Ahead of Maharashtra Polls

The Election Commission (EC) has accepted the request made by the Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SP) to allow it to accept voluntary contributions from the public in view of the upcoming Assembly election in Maharashtra.

The Sharad Pawar-led party had requested the commission to issue a communication or certificate recording the status of the party for the purpose of accepting voluntary contributions from the public.

The EC, in its communication to the party on Monday, authorised it “to accept any amount of contribution voluntarily offered to it by any person or company other than a government company” in compliance with Section 29 B and Section 29C of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, which govern the contribution to all political parties.