The financial year 2024-25 is the first after the Supreme Court quashed the electoral bonds scheme as unconstitutional because these made the contributors to political parties anonymous. For example, just nine electoral trusts donated Rs 3,811 crore to political parties; of this the BJP receivedRs 3,112 crore or more than four-fifths of the total. Electoral trust is only one route of donations in which different bodies put in their contributions in a trust which then donates to the political parties. The total received by the BJP this year is Rs 6,088 crore over the Rs 3,967 crore of the last financial year. Does the highest funding mean an inevitable victory for a political party?

Source: The Telegraph December 24, 2025 02:33 UTC