SBI Electoral Bond data: PVR, Bajaj Auto, Vedanta, Sun Pharma and more–Check list of top 10 donors as EC releases data

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Grasim Industries, Megha Engineering, Piramal Enterprises. The list also includes names like Apollo Tyres, Lakshmi Mittal, Edelweiss, PVR, Keventer, Sula Wine, Welspun, Sun Pharma among buyers of electoral bonds, etc. Torrent Power, Bharti Airtel, DLF Commercial Developers, Vedanta Ltd.

also come top on the list of donors to political parties. The list also includes big names like Piramal Enterprises Ltd., Muthoot Finance Limited, Pegasus Properties Private Limited, Finolex Cables Ltd, Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, Edelweiss Housing Finance Ltd, GHCL Ltd, Jindal Poly Films Limited, ITC Limited, Vedanta Limited, reported ANI. Out of the full list of donors who purchased SBI bonds, Future Gaming And Hotel Services (Lottery Martin), Megha Engineering And Infrastructure Ltd, emerged as the top donors.

Future Gaming And Hotel Services (Lottery Martin) purchased bonds worth ₹1,368 crore. Whereas, Megha Engineering And Infrastructure Ltd bought bonds worth ₹980 crore, EC sources told Mint. However, Livemint could not independently verify the claim.

According to the data uploaded by ECI, Future Gaming purchased 1368 electoral bonds worth ₹1 crore each since 2019, totalling ₹1368 crore. Top recipients of funds through electoral bonds are BJP, Congress, AIADMK, BRS, Shiv Sena, TDP, YSR Congress, DMK, JDS, NCP, Trinamool Congress, JDU, RJD, AAP, SP. The data reveals the information of donors who have purchased bonds of three denominationdenominations, ie ₹1 lakh, ₹10 lakh and ₹1 crore - dating back to April 12, 2019.