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April 2024

Within 48 hours of being selected to receive subsidy from Union gov’t, Aurobindo Pharma gifted Electoral Bonds to BJP

The company had also donated to BJP within five days of its promoter P Sarath Chandra Reddy’s arrest in the alleged Delhi Liquor Scam. Reddy later got bail and turned approver against Arvind Kejriwal.

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April 2024

A corporate lobby swayed Centre’s decisions while its members filled BJP’s coffers

Over the years the Association of Power Producers got government to make favourable policy changes while its members and entities linked to them together donated at least Rs 516 crore to BJP

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March 2024

Electoral bonds: The art of extracting wealth from loss-making firms

Thanks to a tiny tweak in the law, at least 16 of top 200 firms among donors donated despite running in loss, many gave excessively

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March 2024

Keventer group gave BJP Rs 320 crore while ED case was hot

The group did not make much profit, but was generous to political parties.

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March 2024

Lottery king Santiago splurged largely on regional parties while hollowing out state exchequers

Future Gaming’s business remains baffling with its high revenue, mysteriously low profit and eye-popping high electoral bond donations to political parties

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March 2024

BJP top pick for two Reliance-linked electoral bond donors. Donated Rs 400 crore in total

While a top Reliance official donated entirely to the BJP, a firm linked to the Group gave 91% of its donations to the ruling party.

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March 2024

Modi Gov’t Allowed BJP to Illegally Encash Expired Electoral Bonds

Union Finance Ministry forced SBI to accept expired bonds, against its own rules, in favour of BJP, show new disclosures

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March 2024

Despite court order, BJP, Congress, and TMC hid names of their electoral bond donors in sealed affidavits

Only DMK, JD(S) and Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party submitted complete details of electoral bond donors and donations till the end of 2023

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March 2024

DMK’s full disclosure, top electoral bonds donor Future Gaming donated Rs 509 crore to the party

Election Commission’s fresh tranche of documents reveal how Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s party received total Rs 656.5 crore in electoral bonds

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March 2024

Double the Opacity: India’s Biggest Electoral Trust Also Donated Through Electoral Bonds

RJD and Goa Forward Party, in their declarations to EC, revealed they received funding from Prudent Electoral Trust via electoral bonds

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March 2024

Energy companies fueling purses of India’s political parties

India’s Energy industry has donated nearly 30% of the total donations in electoral bonds. Such political donations hint at the existence of a new licence raj.

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March 2024

Rithwik Projects, founded by BJP parliamentarian CM Ramesh, donated Rs 45 crore in electoral bonds

The company faced Income Tax raids when Ramesh was with Telugu Desam Party. The mining and infrastructure firm, run by his son and brother, hold key government contracts

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March 2024

Grasim Industries that successfully lobbied for import curbs is among the top hundred electoral bonds donors

Centre’s decision to curb cheaper imports boosted company’s business, despite Competition Commission’s finding that it abused dominant market position

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March 2024

Environmental violations troubled Sun Pharma group donated Rs 31.5 crore to political parties

For the past few years, Sun Pharma’s drug manufacturing unit in Tamil Nadu courted allegations of environmental violations

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March 2024

Vimal Patni’s company donates to political parties

He was an accused in the controversial 2005 Sohrabuddin encounter case and later acquitted by the CBI court

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March 2024

Uday Kotak had publicly questioned the electoral bonds scheme in 2019. Years later, his group donated money through the same scheme

Kotak group’s financial services provider firm Infina Finance donated Rs 60 crore in electoral bonds

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March 2024

YSR Congress Party MP’s company donated over Rs 100 crores to political parties

Ramky group which owns the construction company has faced ED, CBI and Income Tax raids on multiple occasions

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March 2024

Reliance accounts man, Linked to Network18 Buy, is Among the Top 100 Electoral bonds donors

The Electoral bond scheme allowed individuals to donate to parties, providing a tool to companies wishing to keep donations away from scrutiny

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March 2024

Future Gaming, the biggest electoral bonds donor, gave 6 times its profits to political parties in a year.

Future Gaming and Hotel Services Private Limited has been in news after its property worth over Rs 400 crore was attached by Enforcement Directorate

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March 2024

Keventer group firm donated nearly 100 times its annual profit to political parties

Over Rs 500 crores through electoral bonds were donated by the group soon after it faced ED enquiries for an alleged disinvestment scam

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March 2024

Electoral bonds: Megha Group, with fingers in central and Telangana projects, donated Rs 1,232 crore

It is the second highest donor after Future Gaming and Hotel Services

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March 2024

Confirmed: A Reliance Group company donated Rs 410 crores through electoral bonds

The third largest donor, Qwik Supply Chain donated Rs 360 crores to political parties in the year it made a profit of mere Rs 21.72 crores.

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March 2024

Among top 20 electoral bond donors, two RPSG firms flagged by CAG for coal auction rigging

TRC investigation exposed the role of the two firms that played a key role in rigging bids during the country’s first ever coal auction, to help the group’s flagship firm win the coal mine block

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