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Small donations electoral trust donates Rs 3.3 crore to Congress in FY 21
January 06, 2022 9:05 am
🔴 Last month, the largest electoral trust Prudent Electoral Trust declared that it donated Rs 245.7 crore to parties.
BJP received Rs 3,650 crore during Lok Sabha polls
January 17, 2020 9:42 am
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP made 18 times more than what it made during the 2014 general elections.
Mostly electoral trusts: where major parties got donations from
July 10, 2019 4:30 am
The ADR analysis is based on the income declarations of six national parties for 2016-17 and 2017-18.
BJP recorded 593 per cent jump in donations in 2016-17, Congress 105 per cent: report
May 31, 2018 7:17 am
According to the report, the total donations received by national political parties between the financial year (FY) 2016-17 increased by Rs 487.36 cr — an increase of 478% from Rs 102.02 crore declared during the previous fiscal.
Electoral bonds will not solve transparency issues in political funding: CEC
January 18, 2018 9:53 pm
The remarks come nearly eights months after the EC had told a parliamentary committee that electoral bonds introduced by the government is a "retrograde" step.
Why electoral bonds are necessary, Arun Jaitley explains
January 07, 2018 7:09 pm
Arun Jaitley said that the choice has to be "consciously" made between the existing system of substantial cash donations involving unclean money and other transparent options like cheque, online transactions or electoral bonds.
Electoral bonds printing to have currency notes like secrecy
January 03, 2018 4:27 pm
The bonds, which will have a tenure of just 15 days, cannot be gifted to a new political party so as to ensure that new outfits are not floated overnight to launder funds, a source in the finance ministry said.
FM Arun Jaitley says cleaning up political funding next big reform
July 05, 2017 10:17 pm
"They are objecting primarily because the volume of their business would be known and this time around they will also have to file direct tax returns," Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, conceding that three-four sectors are protesting against GST.
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