New Delhi: The flow of donations to the Bharatiya Janata Party has risen sharply in 2024-25, a year after the Supreme Court scrapped the Electoral Bond Scheme in February 2024, The Indian Express reported.
BJP’s Contribution Report, which the party submitted on December 8 and published by Election Commission last week, reportedly showed that the saffron party received Rs 6,088 crore this year marking 53 per cent higher than Rs 3,967 crore it had received in 2023-24.
The BJP has amassed 12 times more than the Congress’ Rs 522.13 crore in 2024-25, which including donations of other Opposition parties added up to Rs 1,343 crore meaning the ruling party got 4.5 times the total contributions dozen other parties received.
The BJP’s 162-page Contribution Report has revealed that electoral trusts in 2024-25 donated Rs 3,744 crore to the BJP, accounting for 61 per cent of the total contributions it received, with the balance coming from contributions by individuals and corporates, among others.
The top 30 donors of the BJP besides trusts include Serum Institute of India Pvt Ltd (Rs 100 crore), Rungta Sons Private Limited (Rs 95 crore) and Vedanta Limited (Rs 67 crore).
Others who contributed to the party include Macrotech Developers Limited (Rs 65 crore), Derive Investments (Rs 53 crore), Modern Road Makers Pvt Ltd (Rs 52 crore) and Lotus Hometextiles Limited (Rs 51 crore).
The list also includes Safal Goyal Realty LLP (Rs 45 crore), ITC Limited (Rs 39 crore), Global Ivy Ventures LLP (Rs 35 crore), ITC Infotech India Ltd (Rs 33.5 crore), Hero Enterprises Partner Ventures (Rs 30 crore), Mankind Pharma Limited (Rs 30 crore), Suresh Amritlal Kotak (Rs 30 crore), and Hindustan Zinc Limited (Rs 27 crore).
The huge flow of contributions in 2024-25 to its wallet is the highest it got in the last six years, just as the party’s Contribution Report covers individual donations over Rs 20,000.
The government had introduced the Electoral Bond Scheme in 2017-2018, which the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional in February 2024 alongside directing the State Bank of India and the ECI to publish the names of all donors and beneficiaries.