- Kolkata-based industrialist Mahendra Kumar Jalan's companies and Hyderabad-based Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Limited were major donors to political parties ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
- Real estate conglomerate DLF Group (DLF Commercial Developers Limited and DLF Luxury Homes Limited) gave Rs 25 crore to the BJP before the elections. They had been under suspicion of striking a deal with the company of former Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra.
- Piramal Group, of which Reliance Mukesh Ambani's son-in-law Anand Piramal is a director, donated to both the Congress and the BJP.
- Welspun Enterprises, a firm linked to Adani, donated to Congress before the 2019 elections.
- Hyderabad-based companies, including Dr Reddy's, were major donors to the Bharat Rashtra Samithi.
- Kolkata- and Maharashtra-based companies were major donors to the Aam Aadmi Party, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Rashtriya Janata Dal.
New Delhi: Between April 12 and May 10, 2019, 13 political parties received a total of Rs 2,902.87 crore in electoral bonds, of which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alone received Rs 2,719.32 crore. or 93% of total donations.
Other parties that received bonuses were Congress, which received only 3.2% or a total of Rs 95.29 crore.
Kolkata-based industrialist Mahendra Kumar Jalan's companies and Hyderabad-based Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Limited (MEIL) were the biggest donors to political parties ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, according to data released by the Election Commission of India on March 21. Has revealed.
The All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) received Rs 36.2 million, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) received Rs 13.6 million, the Samajwadi Party received Rs 10 million and the Shiv Sena received Rs 8.45 million. .
Additionally, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) received Rs 6.76 million. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) received Rs 2 million each. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) received Rs 1.5 million and the Janata Dal (United) received Rs 1 million. The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference received Rs 50 lakh.
Jalan companies, MEIL and DLF group are top donors to BJP ahead of 2019 elections
While the BJP received a total of Rs 2,719.32 crore before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, its biggest donor during this period was Mahendra Jalan companies.
Madanlal Limited of Jalan gave Rs 175.5 million, while Keventer Food Park Infra Limited gave Rs 144.5 million and MKJ Enterprises Limited gave Rs 14.42 million.
The second biggest donor to the BJP is MEIL, owned by PV Krishna Reddy and PP Reddy. He alone donated Rs 125 crore to the BJP between April and May 2019.
The wire earlier reported that the income tax department conducted an โinspectionโ at its offices in October 2019. Subsequently, the company donated Rs 980 million as electoral bonds and also received key government projects.
Other major donors to the BJP in this period include Vedanta Limited, which donated Rs 52.65 million to the party, Essel Mining and Industries Limited, which donated Rs 50 million, and Bajaj Group and PHL Fininvest Private Limited, which donated Rs 40 million. of rupees each. Industrialist Laxmi Niwas Mittal donated Rs 35 million, while Sun Pharma Laboratories Limited donated Rs 31.5 million.
Notably, real estate conglomerate Robert Vadra's DLF group (DLF Commercial Developers Limited and DLF Luxury Homes Limited) paid Rs 25 crore to the BJP in this period. They only paid the BJP.
Scroll.in reports that in January 2019, the Central Bureau of Investigation raided the DLF offices for alleged irregularities in a land allocation case. The payment of Rs 25 crore was made between April and May 2019. The group had been under a cloud after a Haryana official canceled a land deal it had struck with the former president's son-in-law's Sky Light. Congress, Sonia Gandhi, Robert Vadra, for Rs 3.5 million. acres on September 18, 2012, sparking a public outcry. The BJP state government in Haryana also initiated action. In April last year, the high court was told that no laws had been broken.
Meanwhile, the Piramal Group, of which Reliance Mukesh Ambani's son-in-law Anand Piramal is a director, donated Rs 20 crore to the BJP through Piramal Capital and Housing Finance Limited and Piramal Enterprises Limited.
Congress got largest amount of bonds from Jalan, Adani-linked companies
Before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress received a measly 3.2% of the total bonuses received, i.e. Rs 95.29 crore. Of this, the largest amount of Rs 20 million came from Keventer Food Park Infra Limited of Jalan and Rs 10 million came from Madanlal Limited.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of favoring billionaire Gautam Adani's business interests. Data shows that the party collected Rs 8 million from companies linked to Adani.
The party received a total of Rs 8 million before the 2019 elections from Welspun Corp Limited and Welspun Enterprises Limited. TO Press release on the website of Adani Enterprises, dated April 2021, there is talk of gas exploration in the Mumbai offshore block by Adani Welspun Exploration Limited, a joint venture between the Adani group and Welspun Enterprises Ltd with 65 stakes :35.
Congress also received Rs 5 crore from Piramal Group. PRL Private Developers Limited. Other major donors to the Congress include Bharati Airtel, which donated Rs 8 million, MEIL, which donated Rs 5 million, and Mumbai-based Modern Road Makers Private Limited, which donated Rs 6 million.
Northeastern cement manufacturing giant Star Cement Meghalaya Limited also donated Rs 4.5 crore to the Congress.
At the time of receiving these bonuses, the party held governments in Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Manipur and Chhattisgarh.
Jalan's Keventer and ITC among TMC's top donors
The TMC, which has received the second highest electoral bonuses in the last five years, and saw its fRiches rise after 2021 assembly elections.he also benefited from Jalan businesses before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Jalan's Keventer Food Park Infra Limited was the largest donor to the party ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and donated a total of Rs 20 crore out of the total Rs 36.20 crore the party received during this period.
Other major donors to the TMC include the country's largest carbon manufacturer: Philips Carbon Black Limited. He gave 5 million rupees to the party. Kolkata-based ITC Limited donated Rs 4.95 crore to the party during this period.
Jalan businesses also donated to the Samajwadi Party and the Shiromani Akali Dal.
While the Samajwadi Party only collected bonds worth Rs 10 million, they all came from Keventer Food Park Infra Limited in Jalan.
Shiv Sena, which collected bonuses worth Rs 8.45 crore, received the highest amount from Piramal Group's PRL Developers Private Limited at Rs 5 crore.
Shiromani Akali Dal, which received a total of Rs 6.76 crore, got Rs 50 lakh from Keventer Food Park Infra Limited of Jalan.
The party also received Rs 5 crore from Chandigarh-based Fastway Transmissions Private Limited and Rs 1 crore from Bharti Airtel. subsidiary Bharti Infratel Limited, which has also donated Rs 1 million to Janata Dal (United) during this period.
Hyderabad-based companies, including Dr. Reddy's, are major donors to BRS
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), then Telangana Rashtra Samithi, received Rs 13.6 crore before the 2019 elections, of which Rs 7 crore came from Hyderabad-based Dr Reddy's Laboratories Limited.
Other major donors to the party include Hyderabad-based energy holding company Mytrah Energy (India) Private Limited (Rs 5 crore), which was acquired by JSW Energy last year. Additional Rs 1.6 crore was received from ITC Limited.
Kolkata and Maharashtra-based companies were the major donors to AAP, NCP and RJD.
AAP received Rs 2 crore during this period, including Rs 1 crore from Maharashtra-based BG Shirke Construction Technology. This real estate giant is also the 13th largest donor to all political parties in the last five years.
The AAP also received Rs 1 million from Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited, which is the 10th largest donor among all political parties and donated a total of Rs 184 million during the last five years.
The news minute reported that the chairman emeritus of the Torrent group, Sudhir Mehta, is considered close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The NCP received a total of 2 million rupees before the 2019 elections from Kolkata-based Ambuja Housing and Urban Infrastructure Limited.
The National Conference received Rs 50 lakh from Bharti Airtel.
The DMK received Rs 2 crore from Mumbai-based Modern Road Makers Private Limited during this period.
The RJD received Rs 1.5 crore before the last Lok Sabha elections from major donors like Kolkata-based Quality Maintenance Venture Limited (Rs 50 lakh) along with NCR-based Richa and Co (Rs 50 lakh). lakh) and Sarita Handa Exports Private Limited (Rs. 30 lakh).
