The agency additionally donated Rs 100 crore to the Centre’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration and one other Rs 50 crore to the Congress. Representational picture
The corporate additionally donated Rs 160 crore to Andhra Pradesh’s ruling Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Celebration (YSRCP), the Election Fee of India knowledge analysed by News18 reveals
Future Gaming and Resort Providers, which emerged as the most important donor within the now-outlawed electoral bond scheme with Rs 1,368 crore, has donated greater than Rs 500 crore every to the Trinamool Congress and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. Whereas West Bengal’s ruling TMC bought Rs 542 crore from the agency, the DMK, which is in energy in Tamil Nadu, acquired Rs 509 crore.
The corporate additionally donated Rs 160 crore to Andhra Pradesh’s ruling Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Celebration (YSRCP), the Election Fee of India knowledge analysed by News18 reveals. The three events bought almost 90% of the agency’s complete donations.
The agency donated Rs 100 crore to the Centre’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration and one other Rs 50 crore to the Congress.
In January 2024, simply earlier than the ban on the electoral bond scheme, the Future Gaming and Resort Providers PR bought 63 bonds value Rs 63 crore. All, besides three bonds, have been encashed by the TMC for Rs 60 crore. The Sikkim Democratic Entrance bought the remaining bonds value Rs three crore.
In complete, between January 3 and January 11, the final window for the sale of electoral bonds earlier than it bought banned by the Supreme Court docket, bonds value Rs 571 crore have been bought. The Future Group was the most important purchaser adopted by Bharti Airtel at Rs 50 crore with 50 bonds, as per the information from the Election Fee of India that has been made public.
News18 reported earlier this week concerning the particulars of the donations made to the DMK and AIADMK. Future Gaming and Resort Providers Pvt Ltd has donated Rs 509 crore to the DMK between 2020-21 and 2022-23 (as much as November). The corporate donated Rs 249 crore alone in 2021-22, adopted by Rs 160 crore in 2022-23. It’s value mentioning that Tamil Nadu went for meeting polls in April 2021. The outcomes have been declared in Might 2021 and, the identical month, the DMK got here to energy with MK Stalin taking cost as chief minister.
In 2020-21, the agency made its first donation to the get together by way of electoral bonds — Rs 60 crore. The DMK’s paperwork additionally reveal that the get together bought Rs 40 crore from the agency between April 1, 2023, and November 2023.
The donations given by Future Gaming, whose proprietor, “lottery king” Santiago Martin, has been below the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), is almost 35% of the TMC’s complete donation by way of electoral bonds over time. For the DMK, the share is round 77%.
On Thursday, the Election Fee of India launched a contemporary set of information associated to the now-banned scheme with the respective bond numbers that exposed the small print of who donated how a lot to which get together.
Megha Engineering BJP’s largest donor
The second largest donor within the listing of companies – Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Ltd with Rs 966 crore – has donated Rs 519 crore to the BJP, round 55% of its complete donations.
The agency’s donation within the BJP’s complete earnings from bonds stood at nearly 9 per cent. The get together, over the previous couple of years, bought Rs 6,060 crore from electoral bonds.
Supreme Court docket’s instructions
Final month, the Supreme Court docket struck down the scheme saying nameless electoral bonds violated residents’ proper to info.
The courtroom had requested the State Financial institution of India to share the information with the ECI and directed the ballot physique to publish these particulars on its web site by March 15. On March 14, the Election Fee shared two units of information – the bonds bought by the people and the listing of political events that redeemed these bonds of their accounts.
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