@Moyuriee okay, this shall be a longer response.
1. When the Bonds were first announced as a scheme, I remember I read every govt record in public domain and smelt a rat. A big sewer rat of an idea. ...2
1. When the Bonds were first announced as a scheme, I remember I read every govt record in public domain and smelt a rat. A big sewer rat of an idea. ...2
@Moyuriee 2. They principally went against all principles of a transparent electoral process that is responsive only to citizens and not to any other artificial entity, such as a corporate...3
@Moyuriee 3. I began to smell around for who else was tracking the subject. @adrspeaks was an obvious organisation. I kept talking to figure who was filing RTIs on it and trying to find something from my sources. ...4
@Moyuriee @adrspeaks 4. But then one day out of the blue Commodore Lokesh Batra called me up. He said he had got many documents under RTI pertaining to Electoral Bonds and he wanted me to read them. There were more than 700 pages from govt files. ...5
@Moyuriee @adrspeaks 5. He said he had followed my earlier journalistic work, trusted that I would spend time researching these carefully, that I was capable of understanding what lay in them and would not deter in writing what I found. He simply handed them over out of trust. End.
@Moyuriee (aside: bad spellings, syntax, repeat words. my editors shall be ashamed)
