EC makes public data on electoral bonds
The top court had given the Election Commission time till 5 pm of March 15 to upload the data on its website.
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Thursday made the data on electoral bonds public.
Following a Supreme Court directive, the State Bank of India had shared the data with the poll panel on March 12.
The top court had given the Election Commission time till 5 pm of March 15 to upload the data on its website.
The EC has put the details on 'Disclosure of Electoral Bonds submitted by SBI' in two parts.
According to the data uploaded by the poll panel, the buyers of electoral bonds include 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 parties that redeemed electoral bonds include the BJP, Congress, AIADMK, BRS, Shiv Sena, TDP, YSR Congress, DMK, JDS, NCP, Trinamool Congress, JDU, RJD, AAP, and the Samajwadi Party, according to the data.
In a landmark verdict delivered on February 15, a five-judge Constitution bench had scrapped the Centre's electoral bonds scheme that allowed anonymous political funding, calling it "unconstitutional" and ordered disclosure by the EC of donors, the amount donated by them and the recipients.
Here are the top 10 donors to political parties:
Future Gaming and Hotel Services PR - ₹ 1,368 crore
Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Ltd - ₹ 966 crore
Qwik Supply Chain Pvt Ltd - ₹ 410 crore
Vedanta Ltd - ₹ 400 crore
Haldia Energy Ltd - ₹ 377 crore
Bharti Group - ₹ 247 crore
Essel Mining & Industries Ltd - ₹ 224 crore
Western UP Power Transmission Company Ltd - ₹ 220 crore
Keventer Foodpark Infra Ltd - ₹ 195 crore
Madanlal Ltd - ₹ 185 crore
