Source:
Date:
17.09.2016
City:
new delhi
New Delhi, Sept 17 : With a declared income of Rs 2,446 crore in five years, Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) tops the donation chart among national political outfits, while AAP leads the way among regional parties with Rs 110 crore, media reports said.
AAP gathered the sum in two years time, fiscals 2013-15, since its inception in 2012.
Their closest rival, SAD of Punjab, amassed Rs 76 crore in five fiscal terms.
The figures were declared by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), an NGO campaigning for transparency in politics.
According to their data, Delhi-based AAP earned Rs 55 crores in the last financial year, the highest by a regional party.
There are six national and 46 recognised regional parties in India at the present moment with legal funding.
