The National Federation Party has written to the Registrar of Political Parties and the Commerce Commission, raising concern that the party has been demanded over $5000 as payment of costs for advertising of the declaration of the assets and liabilities of party.
NFP said it regards the advertisement cost under the Political Parties Decree 2013 to be harsh and is creating further burden on the party, which is struggling with funding day to day activities.
The party’s Dalip Kumar said the government through the registrar decided which media to publish the information in and agreed to the charges levied.
He said the party did not have any say or opportunity to negotiate with any media for publication at a cheaper rate, the advertisements did not economize on space thereby leaving a lot of blank spaces for which the party has been charged, which was calculated at least 310 centimeters of blank space in the five pages of advertisement.
NFP has been demanded to pay $5,796.
Commission Chairman Dr. Mahendra Reddy could not be reached for comments.
Registrar of Political Parties, Mohammed Saneem is yet to comment.
Story by: Ronal Deo