Association for Democratic Reforms Report: A report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), an organization working for electoral reforms, states that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will get Rs 614 crore in 2021-22. Rs, while the Congress has received a donation of Rs 95 crore. According to an ADR report, for 2021-22, the total donations received by national political parties from 7,141 donors (above Rs 20,000) have been declared at Rs 780.774 crore.

The maximum donation to BJP
The report says, "BJP has declared that it has received a total of Rs 614.63 crore from 4,957 donations, Congress is second only to BJP. Congress has announced to get Rs 95.46 crore from 1,255 donations. The donations declared by BJP are three times more than the total donations declared by Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Communist Party of India (CPI), Marxist Communist Party (CPIM), NPEP, Trinamool Congress for this period."

ADR said that the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has declared that it has not received any donation of more than Rs 20,000 during 2021-22. However, the BSP has been making such announcements for the last 16 years.

Donation of only 95.46 crore to Congress 
The total donation to national parties increased by Rs 187.03 crore during 2021-22, which is 31.50 percent more than 2020-21. Donation to BJP has increased from Rs 477.55 crore in 2020-21 to Rs 614.63 crore in 2021-22. This is an increase of 28.71 percent in one year. While Congress’s donation increased from Rs 74.52 crore in the financial year 2020-21 to Rs 95.46 crore during 2021-22. This is an increase of 28.09 percent.

Decrease in donations of CPI(M)-NCP
At the same time, CPI(M) and NCP have reduced the amount of donations in 2021-22 by 22.06 percent (Rs 2.85 crore) and 40.50 percent respectively in comparison to 2020-21 (Rs. 24.10 lakh) has been declared to have received less. Let us tell you that this information has been received from the donation report submitted by the political parties to the Election Commission.

BJP got seven times more funds
According to ADR, BJP has received maximum donations of Rs 548.81 crore from corporate/business sectors in 2021-22. This is more than seven times the total amount of corporate donations declared by all the national parties. At the same time, Congress has received a total donation of Rs 54.57 crore through 170 donations from corporate/business sectors during 2021-22. Whereas, Rs 40.89 crore has been received through 1085 individual donors.

Rs 353 crore in donations to the BJP and the Congress has been given by the Prudent Electoral Trust, which is the top donor to the parties receiving the maximum amount. The report states that Nuvoco Vistas Corporation Limited has donated Rs 15 crore to the Congress.