JAMMU: Senior CPI(M) leader and party's polit bureau coordinator Prakash Karat on Monday said the country does not want foreign funding in its democratic system and "it should be banned forthwith".

He also criticized the BJP-led Central government for its failure to take a firm stand on the treatment meted out to the Indian citizens while being deported from the United States of America.

"We do not want foreign organizations to make such interventions in the democratic system of our country. It should be banned forthwith," Karat, who was here to take part in the 13th state conference of the party in Jammu and Kashmir, told reporters here.