'90,000 crore will be spent this election'
April 12, 2019 12:29
Fifteen candidates, including Kanhaiya Kumar, the Aam Aatish Party's Atishi, a widow of a farmer who committed suicide and a transgender activist, are raising campaign funds through a crowd-sourcing platform, Our Democracy.
Helmed by Anand Mangnale and Bilal Zaidi, Our Democracy aims at bringing clean money into the murky world of campaign funding.
Mangnale has worked on the campaign of Jignesh Mevani, volunteered for Irom Sharmila when she contested the Manipur state election in 2017 and consulted on campaigns of couple of candidates in rural Maharashtra.
Co-founder Bilal Zaidi is a former journalist who has also worked with the Global Campaign Organisation Avaaz and worked on United States Senator Bernie Sanders's campaign.
"If we look at our own country's history, Gandhiji took Re 1 donations from people for the Congress during the freedom struggle," Anand Mangnale, tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih in an e-mail interview.
Read the interview here.
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