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Electoral Bonds: Infra Firm, Mining, Telecom Giant Are BJP's Largest Donors Exactly how much each party received through the contentious electoral bonds has come to light after the SBI released ...

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and other leaders accused the BJP of using “electoral bonds for quid pro quo”. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman dismissed such speculations as “assumptions”.

Several political parties on Wednesday submitted to the Election Commission (EC) details of electoral bonds received and encashedby them since the poll funding mechanism was first issued in 2018 ...

Confusion over the statistics of the electoral bond funding prevails because it seems that each political party has chosen its own format for disclosure. At least two parties — Trinamul and the ...

Electoral Bonds were available for purchase for a period of 10 days each in the months of January, April, July, and October, as specified by the Central Government.

During the nearly four year period from April 2019 to February 2024, ₹ 1 crore bonds accounted for nearly 62% of the total donations given to various political parties. Details shared by the ...

The development comes after the Supreme Court, on November 2, directed the ECI to produce an “up to date” data of funds received by political parties through electoral bonds till September 30 ...

The court had directed the State Bank of India to issue details of the political parties that received electoral bonds from April 12, 2019, and submit them to the Election Commission.

A whopping Rs 92.24 billion was realised in 17 phases between April 2019 and March 2023, from electoral bonds deposited for redemption and encashment at the SBI.

Anonymous electoral bonds – now discontinued after the Supreme Court held the scheme as illegal on February 15 – were only one instrument through which political parties received contributions.

The SBI has recorded every detail of 18,871 purchases and 20,421 encashments of electoral bonds between April 2019 and January 2024. However, in the absence of the unique alphanumeric numbers ...