DNA Unique: Unveiling The ‘Incomplete Fact’ Behind Electoral Bonds Information

New Delhi: Following the Supreme Court docket’s directive, the Election Fee uploaded the Electoral Bond knowledge to its official web site on Thursday night, making it publicly accessible. The State Financial institution of India offered this knowledge to the Fee on March 12. In keeping with the launched knowledge, electoral bonds price a complete of INR 12,769 crores had been bought by 1,260 corporations and people. These bonds had been redeemed by numerous political events at completely different instances.

In at this time’s DNA present, Zee Information analysed the publicly disclosed knowledge of electoral bonds, which the Election Fee of India (ECI) has made out there on its web site following the Supreme Court docket’s order. 

Nonetheless, the information doesn’t reveal the particular quantities donated to every celebration by corporations or people, which was the supposed function of creating this info public—to tell voters in regards to the monetary contributions to political events.

The out there knowledge clearly reveals that the BJP obtained essentially the most donations. Nonetheless, it isn’t clear which corporations donated to the BJP, as corporations have bought a number of electoral bonds, suggesting donations might have been distributed amongst numerous events. The opposition alleges that the ruling celebration, BJP, has offered advantages to corporations in change for donations.

Watch tonight’s DNA for an in depth evaluation on electoral bonds buy knowledge: