This move was appreciated by one and all. Every penny was accounted for. Before AAP, no other party had done this. How much money BJP and Congress get, no one had any way of knowing. There was no option but to accept whatever the party declares.

Even in that, 70-80 percent of the funds weren’t declared, because the parties said that regulations did not require donations made in cash below twenty thousand rupees to be declared. Amounts higher than that could not be accepted in cash. Now the cap has been fixed at Rs 2,000.

AAP had decided that it would not accept any donations in cash, because that is what leads to black money being channelled to political parties. As over 90 percent of the donations to AAP are though cheques, all monetary transactions can be tracked. We thought that the other parties would soon follow suit. But that didn’t happen.