BJP got Rs 7,700 crore via bonds, Cong Rs 1,800 crore: ADR

NEW DELHI: From the time electoral bonds were introduced in 2017-18, BJP has received nearly 50% of the total funds from electoral bonds.

Data from Association of Democratic Reforms for 2017-18 & 2018-19 shows that BJP received Rs 1,450.9 crore and Rs 210 crore during the two years and if the amount is added to funds raised through electoral bonds during the period from Apr 12, 2019 to Jan 24, 2024 of Rs 6,060.5 crore, it adds to Rs 7,721.4 crore. This was nearly 50% of total amount so far of Rs 15,529 crore.

Congress received Rs 383.3 crore and Rs 5 crore during the two years and the total works out to Rs 1,810 crore till now, while TMC received Rs 97.3 crore during the two years. Adding that to the amount revealed in the SBI data, the total for the party works out to Rs 1,706.8 crore.


BJD, meanwhile, received Rs 213.5 crore in 2018-19 and nothing in 2017-18. The total amount for the party after Thursday's data works out to Rs 989 crore. This analysis does not include data from April 1 2019 to April 11, 2019. This period, while merely 11 days, was a busy one for political funding coming just before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and would have seen considerable cash flows.

The full details of which party has received how much through electoral bonds from the time of the scheme's inception in 2017 to its being shut down by SC earlier this year will be available soon once Election Commission collates the data given to it by SBI with what it had given SC in a sealed envelope. TNN


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