The nationwide events have collected greater than Rs 15,077.97 crore from unknown sources between 2004-05 and 2020-21, an evaluation by the ballot rights physique — Affiliation for Democratic Reforms, confirmed.
The full revenue of nationwide and regional events from unknown sources for 2020-21 stands at Rs 690.67 crore.
ADR thought-about eight nationwide events and 27 regional events for this evaluation.
The nationwide events comprised the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP), Indian Nationwide Congress (INC), All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), Group Get together of India (Marxist) (CPM), Nationalist Congress Get together (NCP), Bahujan Samaj Get together (BSP), Communist Get together of India (CPI) and Nationwide Folks’s Get together (NPEP).
The regional events included AAP, AGP, AIADMK, AIFB, AIMIM, AIUDF, BJD, CPI(ML)(L), DMDK, DMK, GFP, JDS, JDU, JMM, KC-M, MNS, NDPP, NPF, PMK, RLD, SAD, SDF, Shivsena, SKM, TDP, TRS and YSR-Congress.
The evaluation carried out on the premise of the events’ Revenue Tax Returns (ITR) and donations statements filed with the Election Fee of India (ECI) discovered that between FY 2004-05 and 2020-21, the nationwide events have collected Rs 15,077.97 crore from unknown sources.
“For FY 2020-21, eight nationwide political events have declared Rs 426.74 crore revenue from unknown sources and 27 regional events obtained Rs 263.928 crore revenue from unknown sources,” it mentioned.
Throughout FY 2020-21, Congress declared Rs 178.782 crore as revenue from unknown sources which is 41.89 per cent of the overall revenue of nationwide events from unknown sources (Rs 426.742 crore),” the evaluation mentioned.
BJP declared Rs 100.502 crore as revenue from unknown sources which is 23.55 per cent of the overall revenue of nationwide events from unknown sources.
The highest 5 regional events by way of unknown revenue are YSR-Congress with Rs 96.2507 crore, DMK with Rs 80.02 crore, BJD with Rs 67 crore, MNS with Rs 5.773 crore and AAP with Rs 5.4 crore.
47.06 per cent of the overall Rs 690.67 cr account for the revenue from electoral bonds.
The ADR mentioned the mixed revenue of Congress and NCP from the sale of coupons between FY 2004-05 and 2020-21 stands at Rs 4,261.83 crore.
There are reporting discrepancies within the audit and contribution experiences of seven political events for FY 2020-21.
These seven events embrace AITC, CPI, AAP, SAD, KC-M, AIFB and AIUDF.
With inputs from NDTV
