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For over 25 years, ADR has strengthened Indian Democracy by bringing necessary electoral and political reforms such as disclosure of contesting candidate's background details, abrogation of Electoral Bonds Scheme, inclusion of NOTA on EVMs, disqualification of convicted MPs/MLAs, I.T Returns of political parties in public domain, bringing political parties under RTI, etc.
ADR is the first and only NGO to have paved the way for informed voting by empowering Indian voters with information on the contesting candidates and political parties.
Since the last few years, funding is increasingly becoming a challenge and it is getting difficult to sustain our operations and continue our awareness campaigns in the manner we used to. We now need your help in sustaining our vision of reducing money and muscle power in politics and elections, making the political parties transparent and accountable in their functioning and thereby strengthening our great democracy.
