How should cos fund parties?
Heres a formula New Delhi, April 4 Now that most large political parties have released their poll manifestos, Robinder Sachdev is busy analysing them, not to cast his vote, but to advise corporate houses on which party they should fund, to what extent, and what the chances of various parties are. The 44-year-old communications expert, who runs the city-based think tank The Imagindia Institute, says his teams mission is to help corporate houses, targets of political parties for election funding. We are working on a political funding model, which will help the corporate houses determine how much should be paid to the various political parties, Sachdev told IANS. India goes to the polls in five phases from April 16 to May 13 to elect its next government. Its a busy time for Sachdev and his colleagues as they analyse the positions of different parties on economic issues like privatisation, foreign investment and labour reforms. If a company matches that with details like the location of it
