New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party received over Rs 785 crore in donations from electoral trusts, company and people in 2019-20, which is the best quantity of funds received by any political social gathering in India.
The quantity received is about five times more than what Congress bought in the identical interval. The Congress social gathering received Rs 139 crore that 12 months.
The Election Commission put the knowledge relating to BJP’s funding on its web site this week. The social gathering had submitted its contribution report back to the fee in February this 12 months.
The prime contributors for the BJP included electoral trusts, corporates and social gathering leaders. Among the leaders who made the contribution included Piyush Goyal, Pema Khandu, Kirron Kher and Raman Singh.
ITC, Kalyan Jewellers, Rare Enterprises, Ambuja Cement, Lodha Developers and Motilal Oswal had been a number of the company homes that contributed to the social gathering fund.
New Democratic Electoral Trust, Prudent Electoral Trust, Jankalyan Electoral Trust and Triumph Electoral Trust additionally made important contributions.
Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress received Rs 8 crore, CPI bought Rs 1.3 crore and CPI (M) received Rs 19.7 crore as contributions.
Notably, the contribution report solely mentions donations above Rs 20,000.
