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Ladwa (Kurukshetra): Political parties should come together to develop a transparent mechanism for funding in which the identity of donors should be secret, industrialist-politician Naveen Jindal has said in what is arguably the first prominent voice from the corporate sector on the electoral bonds controversy...
Campaigning in Kurukshetra Thursday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from the parliamentary seat, told ThePrint that his objective is to develop the land where the battle of Mahabharata took place on the lines of Ayodhya and Kashi...
Jindal refused to get into the merits or demerits of the controversial electoral bonds issue and said that it was a deep subject, there are pros and cons to everything and, hence, this cant be explained in a minute or so...
In the Kurukshetra election scheduled for 25 May, Jindal is pitted against 31 candidates, including Aam Aadmi Partys (AAP) Sushil Gupta and Indian National Lok Dals (INLD) Abhay Singh Chautala...
He went on to add that intelligent girls who were unable to pursue their studies due to a lack of funds would receive Jindal Foundation scholarships a declaration met with cheers, especially from girls and women present.. The BJP leader also aspires to elevate Kurukshetra to the ranks of Ayodhya and Kashi enhancing its historical and cultural significance while also modernising rural infrastructure to global standards...
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