The Union Budget 2025 was presented on February 1, 2025, at 11:00 AM. Continuing the tradition, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered the budget in Parliament and this marks the eighth consecutive budget presented by her.
As with the change that was brought about in the Union Budget of 2018-2019 to not offer provisions to fund political parties, the Union Budget of 2019-2020 did not turn over the decision and there will be no Government allocation in FY 2019-2020 to fund political parties.
Under Section 14A of the Political Parties and Organisation Act, 2015 government needs to contribute some amount to the party fund in every budget. As per the law, funds are required to be allocated only to the party representing in the parliament. However, due to heavy pressure, the government has started allocating funds to various political parties represented in parliament since FY 2014-15.
In a statement a few days back, the EC specified that there are other vital areas like voter education, relocation of Commission Headquarter etc. which are operating without government funding and need urgent monetary attention. So, they are not in a position to provide funding to the political parties in the new Union Budget.
Standing true to the statement of the Election Commission of India, the Union Budget 2018-19 doesn't have any provision for funding any of the political parties. Since all the parties have to manage their own funding from other authorised sources for the current fiscal, the ruling party might face stiff protest from the opposition due to the materialisation of this non-funding decision.
As a matter of fact, the expectations of the parties as well as the public has not been met as political party funding is not in the agenda list of the Union Budget 2018-19. Therefore, the party, as well as the public, have to wait for one more year for their expectations to get materialised.
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