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Electoral bonds: Here are the top 10 companies that have donated to political parties

Following a Supreme Court directive, the State Bank of India had shared the data with the poll panel on March 12.

March 14, 2024 / 23:22 IST
The EC has made the details of electoral bonds public

Future Gaming and Hotel Services PR has emerged as the top purchaser of electoral bonds at Rs 1,368 crore, with Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd at the second spot with Rs 966 crore.

Here's a list of the top donors:

  • Future Gaming and Hotel Services PR
  • Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd,
  • Qwik Supply Chain Pvt Ltd
  • Vedanta Ltd
  • Haldia Energy Ltd
  • Bharti Group (includes: Bharti Airtel Ltd, Bharti Airtel Current AC GCO, Bharti Infratel, Bharti Telemedia)
  • Essel Mining and Inds Ltd
  • Western UP Power Transmission Company Ltd
  • Keventer Foodpark Infra Ltd
  • Madanlal Ltd

 

The Election Commission on March 14 released the data on electoral bonds complying with the Supreme Court's directions. The State Bank of India shared the data with the poll panel on March 12.

The poll panel has published the details on 'Disclosure of Electoral Bonds submitted by SBI' in two parts. The first part contains the list of political parties along with the amount they have received. The second contains the names of all the companies that have purchased the bonds. However, the data does not show any link between the donor and the recipients.

The exhaustive list published by EC contains the names of several prominent companies and businessmen.

Here are some of them, listed in alphabetical order:

  • Apollo Tyres
  • Bajaj Auto
  • Bajaj Finance
  • Cipla Limited
  • DLF commercial developers Limited
  • Dr Reddys Laboratories Limited
  • Edelweiss
  • Finolex Cables
  • Force Motors
  • Grasim Industries
  • Inox Air Products
  • Interglobe Real Estate
  • JK Cement
  • Lakshmi Mittal
  • Muthoot Finance
  • Keventer
  • PVR
  • Radico Khaitan
  • Sula Vineyards
  • Sun Pharma
  • Torrent pharmaceuticals
  • Welspun Enterprises
Here's the full list of companies 
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first published: Mar 14, 2024 09:34 pm

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