Almost this time last year, the BJP-led Union government introduced the Finance Bill 2016, cloaked as Money Bill to escape Rajya Sabha scrutiny. The bill, to tweak the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), had a provision allowing political parties to take donations from foreign sources retrospectively from September 2010. That was to contain a verdict of the Delhi high court that found both the BJP and the Congress guilty of taking money from UK-based Vedanta Group violating FCRA provisions.