Congress fund dropped to Rs 139 cr in Lok Sabha polls year
One of the occasion’s greatest donors in 2018-19, Tatas backed Progressive Electoral Trust, avoided contributing to the occasion in the election year. The belief was the most important donor to BJP in 2018-19, contributing Rs 356 crore of its Rs 800 crore. It gave the Congress Rs 55 crore the identical year.
The BJP is but to file its report. The bulk of the Congress funding got here from electoral trusts in 2019-20. In 2019-20, the Progressive Electoral Trust donated to regional events, giving Rs 46 crore and 25 crore to AIDMK and BJD, respectively.
Bharti Airtel supported Prudent Electoral Trust pitched in the most important quantity to the Congress kitty with Rs 31 crore in 2019-20, the Jankalyan Electoral Trust contributed Rs 25 crore. The Mahindra group backed New Democratic Electoral Trust donated Rs 10 crore to Congress whereas the Samaj Electoral Trust and Harmony Trust chipped in with `Rs 2 crore every. Triumph Trust gave a crore.
There is not any point out of electoral bonds in Congress 2019-20 contribution report submitted to the election fee. Electoral bonds type the majority of BJP’s funding. Congress rank and file additionally contributed between Rs 5,000 and Rs 50,000 every.
e greatest donor amongst members was senior chief Kapil Sibal who donated Rs 3 crore at one go. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi contributed Rs 54,000 and Rs 50,000, respectively. Raj Babbar, Kumari Selja and Ripun Bora contributed over Rs 1lakh every. Among corporates, ITC contributed Rs 14 crore and Muthoot Finance, Gwalior Alcobrew and BG Shirke Construction over `Rs 4 crore every.
Among different nationwide events, solely the Nationalist Congress Party has declared its funding, Rs 59.9 crore in 2019-20. The Bahujan Samaj Party, as common, has declared that it has not obtained any quantity greater than `2,000 in donations.
