Those three national parties, whose hands were empty in electoral bonds, regional parties got Rs 5221 crore
Regional parties received donations worth more than Rs 5,221 crore through electoral bonds between April 2019 and January 2024. This is Rs 839 crore less than the amount of Rs 6,060.51 crore received by BJP during the same period. According to electoral bond data released by the Election Commission, two national parties Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) received Rs 1,421.86 crore and Rs 65.45 crore respectively during this period. Other national parties Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Communist Party of India (Marxist) and NPP (National People’s Party) have not received any amount through electoral bonds.
22 regional parties got 30 percent of the entire election donations
Among regional parties, Trinamool Congress alone has received an amount of Rs 1,609.53 crore through electoral bonds. This amount is 30 percent of the total donation amount from 22 regional parties receiving donations through this medium. Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) received Rs 1,214.70 crore, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) received Rs 775.50 crore through electoral bonds. DMK collected Rs 639 crore, YSR Congress Party Rs 337 crore, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Rs 218.88 crore and Shiv Sena Rs 159.38 crore.
73.5 crores to RJD and 14 crores to JDU
Rashtriya Janata Dal raised Rs 73.5 crore through electoral bonds. Janata Dal Secular collected Rs 43.40 crore, Sikkim Krantikari Party Rs 36.5 crore, Nationalist Congress Party Rs 31 crore, Jan Sena Party Rs 21 crore, Samajwadi Party Rs 14.05 crore, Janata Dal United Rs 14 crore and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Received Rs 13.5 crore through this means.
Akali Dal collected Rs 7.2 crore, AIADMK Rs 6.05 crore and Sikkim Democratic Front Rs 5.5 crore from electoral bonds. Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, Jammu and Kashmir National Conference and Goa Forward Party received less than Rs 1 crore through electoral bonds. According to a report published earlier by the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), electoral bonds worth Rs 16,518 crore have been sold from March 2018 to January 2024. The data published so far by the Election Commission does not include bonds for the period from March 2018 to April 11, 2019.
In a report released last month, it was said that BJP received the maximum amount of Rs 6566 crore (54.77 percent) from electoral bonds. After this, Congress got Rs 1123 crore (9.37 percent) and Trinamool Congress got Rs 1092 crore (9.11 percent). In an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court, State Bank of India (SBI) said that a total of 22,217 electoral bonds of various denominations were purchased by donors between April 1, 2019 and February 15, 2024, of which 22,030 were bought by political parties. Roasted.
