{"id":504637,"date":"2024-03-15T12:15:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T06:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=504637"},"modified":"2024-04-16T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:59:28","slug":"electoral-bond-bjp-congress-tmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/elections\/electoral-bond-bjp-congress-tmc\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP got Rs 6,061 crore of electoral bonds sold, more than half the bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Election Commission of India\u2019s data revealed on Thursday that BJP received the highest sum among all political parties through electoral bonds scheme. Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Congress (TMC) redeemed electoral bonds of much higher value than the Congress. The BJP redeemed bonds worth Rs 6061 crore followed by Trinamool Congress receiving Rs 1610 crore and the Congress is on the third spot with Rs 1422 crore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tamil Nadu-based Future Gaming and Hotel Services donated the biggest sum in these 5 years: Rs 1368 crore. Andhra Pradesh based Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Limited donated Rs 891 crore, Qwik supply chain private private limited donated 400 crore and Haldia Energy Limited donated Rs 377 crore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Election Commission of India uploads the data on electoral bonds on its website as received from SBI.<br><br>Donors to political parties through electoral bonds include Grasim Industries Limited, Piramal Capital and Housing Finance Limited, Piramal Enterprises Ltd., Muthoot Finance\u2026<\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1768293155500167500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Goenkas, Indigo, Spicejet, Jindals, Bajajs, Birlas, PVR, DLF, Mahindra and Mahindra, ITC Bharti Airtel, Sunil Bharti Mittal\u2019s, Lakshmi Mittal are among the notable names who donated to the parties. Sunil Mittal\u2019s 3 companies together purchased a total of Rs 246 crore worth of bonds. Lakshmi Niwas Mittal bought Rs 35 crore worth of bonds in individual capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The donations made to the Congress and the Samajwadi Party was made in the name of President, All India Congress Committee and Adyaksha Samajwadi Party. The SBI had informed the Supreme Court that out of 22, 217 electoral bonds 22030 were redeemed between April 1,2019 and February 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The buyers of electoral bonds included Ultratech Cement, Cipla, Kaypee Enterprises, ITC, Dr Reddy\u2019s Laboratories, CEAT Tyres, Philips carbon Black Limited, Jindal Group, Vardhman Textiles, Sun Pharma, Welspun, Sula Wines, Keventer, PVR, Edelweiss, Apollo Tyres, Vedanta Ltd, DLF Commercial Developers, Bharti Airtel, Torrent Power, Piramal Enterprises, Megha Engineering, Grasim Industries, Indigo and Spicejet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The political parties who benefited from the scheme include the BJP, Congress, AIADMK, BRS, ShivSena, TDP, YSR Congress, DMK, JD-S, NCP, Trinamool Congress, JDU, RJD,AAP, the Samajwadi Party, Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, BJD, Goa Forward Party, Maharshtrawadi Gomantak party, Sikkim Krantikari Morcha, JMM, Sikkim Democratic Front and the Jana Sena Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The BJP redeemed bonds worth Rs 6061 crore followed by Trinamool Congress receiving Rs 1610 crore and the Congress is on the third spot with Rs 1422 crore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":504639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"BJP got Rs 6,061 crore of electoral bonds sold, more than half the bonds","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[162562,7,1497,125714],"tags":[58,2201,80094,69043,150336,2200,70107,69123,834,611,811,84,131388,40628,1708,69743],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15120804\/Election-Commission-of-India-1.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504637"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=504637"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=504637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->