Year after bonds scrapped, BJP's purse grows over 50% to Rs 6,088 crore | Big donors to electoral trusts: Tata to Mahindra, OP Jindal to L&T, Megha | Donations to Congress halves to Rs 522 crore in 2024-25
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| In the high-stakes year of the Lok Sabha elections, several political parties grew their purse. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party raked in Rs 6,088 crore — more than 50 per cent higher than what it collected the previous year. To put that in perspective, the BJP’s corpus was 12 times larger than the Congress’s Rs 522.12 crore, and 4.5 times the combined donations received by a dozen Opposition parties. The data also reveals a shift in how political money moved. After the Supreme Court scrapped the electoral bonds scheme in February 2024, electoral trusts stepped in as the preferred route for corporate donations. Who gave and who gained? We analysed contribution reports filed by all political parties with the Election Commission to trace the biggest donors and beneficiaries. Read our full coverage. | | | |
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