The donations that recognised national parties received during financial year 2020-21 decreased by over 420 crore, a sharp fall of 41.49% from the previous fiscal.
Donations to the BJPdecreased from 785.77 crore during FY 2019-20 to 477.54 crore during FY 2020-21 a fall of 39.23%. The party’s donations had increased by 5.88% during FY 2019-20 in comparison to FY 2018-19, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said in a statement.
Thedonations received by Congressplunged from 139.016 crore during FY 2019-20 to 74.524 crore during FY 2020-21 — a reduction of 46.39%.
Its donations had decreased by 6.44% between FY 2018-19 and FY 2019-20, the statement said.
A total of over 246 crore was donated to the national parties from Delhi, followed by 71.68 crore from Maharashtra and over 47 crore from Gujarat.
The corporate and the business sector made 1,398 donations to the national parties amounting to 480.655 crore over 80% of the total donations while 2,258 individual donors contributed 111.65 crore or 18.804% of the total to these parties during FY 2020-21.