In the 2024-25 election cycle, the BJP has overtaken the Congress in political donations, securing over \u20b96,000 crore compared to the Congress’s mere \u20b9522 crore. This funding surge follows the Supreme Court’s scrapping of the Electoral Bonds scheme, which has shifted the landscape of political funding in India. Saharsa, Nov 3 (ANI): A boy shows a sketch of Prime Minister Narendra Modi amid a massive crowd at the public rally of Prime Minister Modi, organized for the Bihar elections in Saharsa on Monday. (Narendra Modi Photo Gallery\/ANI Photo) (Narendra Modi Photo Gallery) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received \u20b96,088 crore as political donations in 2024-2025, revealed the details available on the Election Commission’s website. The contribution received by the ruling party in 2024-25, the year of Lok Sabha elections, is much more than \u20b94,000 crore it received in 2023-24, according to the contribution reports submitted by political parties to the Election Commission of India. The BJP’s contribution is about 12 times the collection of the Congress party, which received \u20b9522 crore in the same year. The Congress received \u20b91,130 crore as political funding in 2023-2024. Top 10 Donors of BJP in 2024-2025 Donor \u20b9in Crores Prudent Electoral Trust 2180.7 Progressive Electoral Trust 757.6 AB General Electoral Trust 606 New Democratic Electoral Trust 150 Serum Institute of India 100 Bajajta group 974 Irungajta group 974 IBA group 9. 70 Vedanta group 65 (Source: Election Commission of India) The political funding received by political parties in 2024-2025 is significant as it was the first full year after the Electoral Bond Scheme of Political Funding which allows anonymous donations was struck down by the Supreme Court of India in February 2024. Electoral Trust is established by various companies to distribute the political parties’ contributions. Thirteen of the 19 electoral trusts have so far submitted the reports to the poll panel for the year 2024-2025. An electoral trust is mandated to distribute at least 95% of the contributions to parties that received them in a fiscal. The contribution reports available on the poll panel’s website deal with the funds received by political parties from donors who gave away more than \u20b920,000, as well as contribution reports by the Prudent electoral trust on the donations they made to political parties. According to these reports, the BJP received 85 percent of the overall political funding from these trusts in 2024-25. A year before the Lok Sabha election year, the saffron party shelled out 56 percent of the total funding. Lok Sabha Elections 2024 was held between 19 April and 1 June in 2024. Top 10 Congress Donors in 2024-25 Donor \u20b9in Crores Prudent electoral trust 216.3 Progressive electoral trust 77.3 Century Plywoods (India) Limited I5 TC2 General 0 Limited. 15 Kotak Group 10 Hindustan Zinc Limited 10 The Sandur Manganese & Iron Ores Limited 9.5 Rajeev Gowda 4.2 Derive Investments 4 (Source: Election Commission of India) Before 2024, electoral bonds accounted for the bulk of political funding received by parties. Since the scheme was struck down by the Supreme Court in February 2024, the political funding reported in 2024-25 has been mostly through electoral trusts. Prudent Trust donated \u20b92,181 cr Prudent Electoral Trust made most of the political funding, the report said. The trust donated \u20b9 2,181 crore to the BJP and \u20b9 216 crore to the Congress. Among the companies, the largest contribution to Prudent came from Elevated Avenue Realty LLP, a firm associated with Larsen & Toubro, an engineering and technology conglomerate, amounting to \u20b9500 crore. The BJP received 85 percent of the overall political funding from electoral trusts in 2024-25. Progressive Electoral Trust is the second largest political funder. The trust donated \u20b9757.6 crore to the BJP and \u20b977.3 crore to the Congress. AB General Trust, which donated \u20b9606 crore to the BJP and \u20b915 crore to the Congress, is the third largest contributor of political funding among electoral trusts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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