The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday canceled the Electoral Bond, which was introduced six years ago for electoral funding of political parties, terming it unconstitutional.
Along with this, the State Bank has been directed to hand over all the amounts and all the data of secret donations to the Election Commission.
Court documents have revealed that the ruling BJP at the Center has received the highest amount from electoral bonds in the last six years.
The annual audit report of the last six years of this scheme, which was started in 2017-18, shows that BJP has received the maximum amount of Rs 6566 crore in the form of secret donations.
The main opposition party Congress is in second place but it has received only Rs 1123 crore in six years. Mamata Banerjee’s party Trinamool Congress is at third place in the list, which has received Rs 1092 crore, while this party rules only one state (West Bengal).
Documents submitted to the court revealed that CPI(Marxist) is the only national party which does not accept donations through electoral bonds.
At fourth place in the list is Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal of Naveen Patnaik, which has received Rs 774 crore as donations. Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK is at fifth position, having received a total of Rs 615 crore through electoral bonds.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (which was earlier TRS), which ruled Telangana for the last 10 years, is at number six in this list. It has received a total of Rs 383 crore election donations in six years.
YSR Congress ruling Andhra Pradesh is at seventh place in this list. Jaganmohan Reddy’s party has received a total of Rs 382 crore through electoral bonds in six years.
His rival former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP has received Rs 146 crore. In this way it is at number eight in the list of top 10 parties.
At number nine is Shiv Sena, which has received Rs 101 crore, while at number 10 is Aam Aadmi Party, which has received Rs 94 crore. You have not received any donations in the first two years.
Talking about other parties, Akhilesh Yadav’s SP has got 49, Nitish Kumar’s JDU has got 24, Lalu Yadav’s RJD has got 2.5, Hemant Soren’s JMM has got only 1 crore, while Tamil Nadu’s main opposition party AIMIM has got 6, Punjab’s Akali Dal has got Rs 7.26 crore, JDS of Karnataka has got Rs 13 crore.