In the fiscal year 2023–2024, the bharatiya janata party (BJP) received the most electoral donations. From 8,358 donations, the party of prime minister Narendra Modi announced ₹ 2243.947 crore. According to a new report published by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), the congress came in second with ₹281.48 crore from 1994 donations.
 
The research claims that in FY 2023–2024, the BJP's declared donations "were more than six times the aggregate declared" by the congress, AAP, NPEP, and CPI(M). In the fiscal year 2023–2024, the bharatiya janata party (BJP) received the most electoral donations.  From 8,358 donations, the party of prime minister Narendra Modi announced ₹ 2243.947 crore.
 
According to a new report published by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), the congress came in second with ₹281.48 crore from 1994 donations.
 
The research claims that in FY 2023–2024, the BJP's declared donations "were more than six times the aggregate declared" by the congress, AAP, NPEP, and CPI(M).

The election Commission's data on donations over ₹20,000 made to national political parties in the fiscal year 2023–2024 was examined in the ADR report, which was made public on Monday.
 
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Corporate donations to political parties
According to the ADR report, corporations and business sectors contributed a maximum of 3,755 ₹2262.5 crore (88.9% of total donations) to the national parties.
 
The largest portion of all corporate donations went to the BJP.  According to the study, "[As many as] 3,478 donations from corporate/business sectors were made to bjp [ ₹2064.58 crore], while 4,628 individual donors donated ₹169.126 crore to the party during FY 2023-24."
 
In the meantime, the congress got ₹90.899 crore from 1,882 individual donors and ₹190.3 crore from corporate and business sectors in FY 2023–2024.
 
The study claims that the bjp received ₹2064.5 crore, which is "more than nine times the total amount of corporate donations declared by all other national parties for the FY 2023-24."
 
The Top 10 Donors to Political Parties
1. Prudent Electoral Trust: It donated ₹880 crore to the bjp and the congress together and is the top donor to parties that received the maximum donations. The Trust donated ₹723.6 crore to the bjp (32.25% of total funds received by the party) and ₹156.4 crore to the congress (55.56% of total funds received by the party).

2. Triumph Electoral Trust donated ₹127.50 crore to the BJP

3. Derive Investments donated ₹50 crore to the bjp and ₹3.2 crore to the Congress.

4. Acme Solar Energy Pvt. Ltd. donated ₹51 crore

5. Rungta Sons Private Limited donated ₹50 crore

6. Bharat Biotech international Limited donated ₹50 crore

7. ITC Infotech india Ltd donated ₹80 crore

8. Dinesh Chandra R. Agarwal Infracon Pvt. Ltd. donated ₹30 crore to BJP

9. dilip Buildcon Limited donated ₹29 crore

10. Macrotech Developers Limited donated ₹27 crore

 
 
 
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08/04/2025 10:20 AM