Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today said that the Election Commission needs to build a political consensus on the issue of electoral reforms including funding. <br/><br/>Responding to a query on the demands of the Commission to amend electoral laws to bar anonymous donations above 2000 rupees and to give it power to deregister a political party, Mr Prasad said, the government will render full cooperation to the poll watchdog on the issue. <br/><br/>The Minister said, the government stands firmly behind the proposal to make electoral funding more transparent. Addressing one of his election rallies in Uttar Pradesh recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had hailed EC's efforts to cleanse political system of black money.<br/><br/>The Commission has sent to the Law Ministry a string of electoral reform proposals, including the one to reduce from the present 20 thousand rupees to 2000 rupees anonymous political donations, power to countermand polls over proof of use of money power and authority to de-register political parties.<br/><br/>Several EC proposals are pending with the government which the poll body feels can help cleanse the electoral system.