Congress treasurer Motilal Vora has expressed concerns about the electoral funding laws being mooted by Centre, saying that the proposed laws will not help the cause of transparency much.

In a letter to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley dated May 30 this year, the Rajya Sabha MP from Chhattisgarh said that the revamped laws being mulled would only make the names of donors and donees available to the government.

“I am afraid that this will not ensure transparency in electoral funding; on the contrary, it will be a completely opaque mechanism,” Vora stated in his letter, the receipt of which was acknowledged by Jaitley in another letter dated June 14.

“My party’s view is that, to ensure total transparency, the names of the donors and the donees and the amounts donated must be disclosed so that the people will have the information,” Vora said.