{"id":251753,"date":"2023-07-12T20:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=251753"},"modified":"2023-07-12T20:31:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:01:02","slug":"poll-bonds-chief-source-of-donations-for-parties-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/poll-bonds-chief-source-of-donations-for-parties-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll bonds chief source of donations for parties: report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cPoll bonds chief source of donations for parties: report\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>The Hindu <\/b>on 12th July 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Association of Democratic Reforms(ADR) has released a report titled \u201cAnalysis of Donations to Registered Political Parties from FY 2016-17 and FY 2021-22.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the key findings of the report?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Donations to Political Parties:<\/b> The total donations declared by the 7 National Parties from Electoral Bonds, corporate sector and other donations between FY 2016-17 and 2021-22 were Rs 13190 crores (80.247%).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 For National parties, there was a 743% increase in donations from electoral bonds between FY 2017-18 and FY 2021-22 while for corporate donations this increase is only 48%.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Electoral Bonds are the most preferred mode of donations for making contributions to National and Regional parties followed by direct corporate donations.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The total donations declared by BJP is more than three times the total donations declared by all other National parties.<\/span><\/p>\n

Electoral Bonds<\/b>: During the six-year period, more than 52% of BIP\u2019s total donations came from Electoral Bonds worth \u20b95,271.97 crore.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The Congress declared the second highest donations from bonds of \u20b9952.29 crore (61.54% of its total donations) followed by the Trinamool Congress that got \u20b9767.88 crore (93.27%).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Among the regional parties, the BJD received 89.81% of its total donation from bonds worth \u20b9622 crore, while the DMK got \u20b9431.5 crore (90.7%) and the TRS got \u20b9383.65 crore (80.45%).<\/span><\/p>\n

Direct Corporate Donations<\/b>: The direct corporate donations declared by 7 National parties are more than five times the corporate donations declared by 31 Regional Parties during the six-year period.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The corporate donations declared by BJP are at least three-four times more than the total corporate donations of all other National Parties. In FY 2017-18, it was more than eighteen times that of all other National parties.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 For the six-year period, BSP has consistently declared no corporate donations while CPI has declared receiving zero corporate donations from FY 2018-19 to FY 2021-22.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cPoll bonds chief source of donations for parties: report\u201d published in The Hindu on 12th July 2023 What is the News? Association of Democratic Reforms(ADR) has released a report titled \u201cAnalysis of Donations to Registered Political Parties from FY 2016-17 and FY 2021-22. What are the key… Continue reading Poll bonds chief source of donations for parties: report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-251753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702530682},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}