India’s Election Commission has disqualified 255 suspicious political parties. Here’s why.

NEW DELHI — When Prime Minister Narendra Modi abruptly scrapped large bills of India's currency two months ago with the goal of curbing illicit wealth, many citizens asked why he spared the country’s political parties and their opaque funding practices. The number of political parties is growing rapidly in the world’s largest democracy. At the last count, […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/12/28/the-election-commission-in-the-worlds-largest-democracy-recently-removed-255-suspicious-parties-from-its-list-heres-why/