“In compliance of Hon’ble Supreme Court’s directions, contained in its order dated Feb 15 & March 11, 2024 (in the matter of WPC NO.880 of 2017), the State Bank of India (SBI) had provided the data pertaining to the electoral bonds to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on March 12, 2024,” the poll body said in a press release.
Late on Thursday, the Election Commission uploaded all the data on its website, in two parts totalling 763 pages of information.
“The Election Commission of India has today uploaded the data on electoral bonds on its website as received from SBI on “as is where is basis”. The data as received from SBI can be accessed at this URL: https://www.eci.gov.in/candidate-politicalparty,” the release said.
Of the bonds, the Bharatiya Janata Party received a total of 8,633 totalling ₹25.3 crore, while the Congress raked in just over half that amount at ₹19.8 crore from 3,146 bonds. Regional parties like the Bharat Rashtra Samithi saw ₹13 crore in bonds while the DMK raked in ₹7 crore and the AIADMK received ₹3.3 crore.
The party-wise break down of funds is as follows:
Party | Denomination |
AIADMK | 33,000,000 |
BRS | 130,000,000 |
BJP | 253,000,000 |
Congress | 198,000,000 |
ShivSena | 42,000,000 |
TDP | 106,000,000 |
TMC | 344,000,000 |
DMK | 70,000,000 |
JD(S) | 38,000,000 |
NCP | 17,000,000 |