SBI’s electoral bonds data uploaded on Election Commission website

The Election Commission of India has uploaded the data of the electoral bonds given to it by the State Bank of India. The data pertains to purchases of bonds of denominations between ₹ 1,000 and ₹ 1 crore, dating back to April 12, 2019, and reveals purchases by companies and individuals.

The EC's website has two lists. While one list is of companies that purchased electoral bonds, the other has names of the political parties as well as the denominations of the bonds and the dates on which they were encashed.

There is, however, no way of correlating the lists and finding out which company or individual had donated to which party.

The company that contributed the most through purchasing electoral bonds is Future Gaming and Hotel Services PR, which bought bonds worth ₹ 1,368 crore. Megha Engineering And Infrastructures Limited was second, purchasing bonds worth ₹ 966 crore.  At ₹ 410 crore, Qwik Supply Chain Private Limited was a distant third, followed by Vedanta Limited at ₹ 400 crore and Haldia Energy Limited at ₹ 377 crore.

Bharti Group is sixth, having donated ₹ 247 crore, followed by Essel Mining And Inds Ltd at ₹ 224 crore. The remaining three in the list of top 10 donors are Western UP Power Transmission Company Limited, which contributed ₹ 220 crore, Keventer Foodpark Infra Ltd, which gave ₹ 195 crore, and Madanlal Ltd at ₹ 185 crore.

The parties that encashed electoral bonds include the BJP, Congress, Trinamool Congress, AAP, Samajwadi Party, AIADMK, BRS, Shiv Sena, TDP, YSR Congress, DMK, JDS, NCP, JDU and RJD.