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92% of Corporate Donations to Political Parties Went to BJP

January 19, 2019

92% of Corporate Donations to Political Parties Went to BJP
The data shared by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) shows that the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) received 92% of all donations above ₹20,000 that were made by corporates for national political parties during 2017-18. That’s 12 times the funding of all the other parties combined.  

The top six national political parties BJP, Congress, CPM, NCP, CPI, and TMC received ₹437 crores , ₹26.7 crores , ₹2.8 crores , ₹2.1 crores , ₹1.1 crores , and ₹0.2 crores respectively in FY18

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