{"id":63155,"date":"2002-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/introduction-of-the-political-parties-assistance-and-regulation-on-22-march-2002"},"modified":"2017-07-02T00:13:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T18:43:23","slug":"introduction-of-the-political-parties-assistance-and-regulation-on-22-march-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/introduction-of-the-political-parties-assistance-and-regulation-on-22-march-2002","title":{"rendered":"Introduction Of The Political Parties (Assistance And Regulation) &#8230; on 22 March, 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Lok Sabha Debates<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Introduction Of The Political Parties (Assistance And Regulation) &#8230; on 22 March, 2002<\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=14.17%20hrs.%20%0A%0ATitle\">14.17 hrs. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=Title\">Title<\/a><\/a>: Introduction of the Political Parties (Assistance And Regulation) Bill, 2001.\n<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=%20%0A%0ASHRI%20BIR%20SINGH%20MAHATO%20\"> <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=SHRI%20BIR%20SINGH%20MAHATO%20\">SHRI BIR SINGH MAHATO <\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a>(<a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=PURULIA\"><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=PURULIA\">PURULIA<\/a><\/a>): Sir, I beg to move for leave to introduce a Bill to provide for assistance to political parties and their candidates by the Central Government for ensuring their effective functioning and for promoting sound democratic polity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. <\/p>\n<p>MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER: The question is:\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That leave be granted to introduce a Bill to provide for assistance to political parties and their candidates by the Central Government for ensuring their effective functioning and for promoting sound democratic polity and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0The motion was adopted.\n<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=%20%0A%20%0A%20%0A%20%0A%20%0A%0ASHRI%20BIR%20SINGH%20MAHATO%20\"> <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=SHRI%20BIR%20SINGH%20MAHATO%20\">SHRI BIR SINGH MAHATO <\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a>: I introduce the Bill. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>** Published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 2, dt.22.3.02 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lok Sabha Debates Introduction Of The Political Parties (Assistance And Regulation) &#8230; on 22 March, 2002 14.17 hrs. 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SHRI BIR SINGH MAHATO (PURULIA): Sir, I beg to move for leave to introduce a Bill to provide for assistance to political parties and their candidates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Introduction Of The Political Parties (Assistance And Regulation) ... on 22 March, 2002 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/introduction-of-the-political-parties-assistance-and-regulation-on-22-march-2002\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Introduction Of The Political Parties (Assistance And Regulation) ... on 22 March, 2002 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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