Electoral bonds news: From Reliance-linked firms to Vedanta, here's a list of BJP's top donors
₹664 crore between April 2019 and January 2024. Electoral bond donors & beneficiaries: Revealing the links The second-biggest donor to BJP is Reliance-linked Qwik Supply Chain. As per the data available on EC's website, the Reliance-linked company donated ₹395 crore to the saffron party.
The Keventers group took the third spot, donating ₹352 crore to the BJP, followed by the Aditya Birla group at ₹285 crore and the Bharti Airtel group at ₹236.4 crore. Electoral bonds data: Reliance-linked Qwik Supply donated ₹395 crore to BJP Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Group donated ₹230.15 to the BJP. The BJP also got donations worth ₹81 crore from Haldia Energy, ₹80 crore from Western UP Power and Transmission Company, and ₹42 crore from Welspun.
Industrialist Lakshmi Mittal donated ₹35 crore to the BJP in an individual capacity, while several other individuals donated funds in the range of ₹10-25 crore to the ruling party. Electoral bonds: Future Gaming donated Rs150 cr to YSR Congress, ₹150 cr to BJP On Thursday, the Election Commission made two sets of data public, comprising a list of 18,871 electoral bonds purchased, and 20,421 electoral bonds redeemed after April 12, 2019. In compliance with the Supreme Court's directions, the SBI on Thursday provided data pertaining to electoral bonds to the Election Commission of India.
Electoral Bonds: IT majors such as Infosys, Cyient and Zensar on list of donors The fresh data was published by the poll panel on its website after the details were submitted by the State Bank of India earlier in the day. On Monday, the Supreme Court had directed SBI to disclose all electoral bond details, including the unique identification code, by March 21. It had then asked the Election Commission to upload
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