Following the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Election Commission of India (ECI) posted the electoral bonds knowledge that the State Bank of India (SBI) launched on its web site on Thursday ( March 14, 2024). The deadline to submit the identical was March 15, 2024.
The apex courtroom ordered the physique to put up the data by 5 p.m. earlier than March 15 on its official web site.
According to the election panel’s knowledge, beginning April 12, 2019, electoral bonds with denominations starting from Rs 1,000 to Rs 1 crore have been bought. Additionally, the information shows purchases made by each people and companies.
In accordance with the Supreme Court’s directive to offer the data, the SBI on Tuesday evening offered the electoral physique with the names and call data of the organizations that had purchased the now-canceled electoral bonds in addition to the political events that had obtained them
The EC has put the small print on ‘Disclosure of Electoral Bonds submitted by SBI’ in two elements.
Major company donors
As per the information uploaded by the ballot panel, the patrons of electoral bonds embody Grasim Industries, Megha Engineering, Piramal Enterprises, Torrent Power, Bharti Airtel, DLF Commercial Developers, Vedanta Ltd., Apollo Tyres, Lakshmi Mittal, Edelweiss, PVR, Keventer, Sula Wine, Welspun, and Sun Pharma.
The political events that redeemed electoral bonds embody the BJP, Congress, AIADMK, BRS, Shiv Sena, TDP, YSR Congress, DMK, JDS, NCP, Trinamool Congress, JDU, RJD, AAP, and the Samajwadi Party, in response to the information.
In a landmark verdict delivered on February 15, a five-judge Constitution bench had scrapped the Centre’s electoral bonds scheme that allowed nameless political funding and known as it “unconstitutional”.
