The Election Commission has uploaded the complete details of electoral bonds on its website on March 14.
Earlier on Tuesday, SBI had provided information about electoral bonds to the Election Commission. In this case, the Supreme Court had ordered SBI to do so.
The Election Commission has uploaded two lists in 763 pages. The first list mentions the donors and the electoral bonds and amounts purchased by them. Whereas the second list contains information about the electoral bonds taken by the parties and their total amount.
The list of donors includes names of many big companies including DLF, Bharti Airtel, Jindal Steel and Power Limited, Yashoda Super Specialty Hospital and Vedanta Limited.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has released the complete list of donors purchasing electoral bonds and political parties receiving them.
State Bank of India (SBI) had given this information to ECI on March 12. The Supreme Court had directed the ECI to post this information on its website by March 15, which the Commission had done a day earlier.
Giving information in the matter, the Election Commission said that the information has been given in the same format as the data has been provided by SBI. Know the details of donors-
List of companies making election donations
Future Gaming and Hotel Services (Lottery Martin) is the top donor to political parties. This company gave the maximum donation of Rs 1,368 crore to political parties.
The second number belongs to Megha Group of Companies, which bought bonds worth Rs 1,186 crore. Western UP Power Transmission Company Limited has purchased bonds worth Rs 220 crore. DLF Commercial Developers Limited has bought bonds worth Rs 130 crore. At the same time, Bharti Airtel Limited bought electoral bonds worth Rs 183 crore.
At the same time, Vedanta Limited has purchased electoral bonds worth Rs 366 crore. Jindal Steel and Power Limited purchased electoral bonds worth Rs 125 crore. Yashoda Super Specialty Hospital has purchased electoral bonds worth Rs 162 crore.
Who gave election donations to which political party?
A look at political parties
The parties are mentioned in the second list in the information uploaded by the Election Commission. In this, BJP is at number one, which has received donations of more than Rs 2363 crore.
At second place is Mamata Banerjee’s party TMC, which received donations of more than Rs 416 crore. At the same time, Biju Janata Dal is the third highest donation receiving party, which received donations of Rs 328 crore. At the same time, Congress received donations of Rs 302 crore and DMK received donations of Rs 294 crore.