Donations made to 6 political events based mostly in Gujarat had been more than those made to nationwide events, besides the Bharatiya Janata Get together, within the monetary yr 2023-’24, BBC Information Hindi reported on Friday.
The six events categorised as registered unrecognised political events had been the Aam Janmat Get together, Bharatiya Nationwide Janata Dal, Garib Kalyan Get together, New India United Get together, Satyawadi Rakshak Get together and the Swatantrata Abhivyakti Get together.
The six events acquired donations of Rs 1,700 crore through the fiscal yr 2023-’24, BBC reported citing information from the Election Fee and the Affiliation for Democratic Reforms ballot watchdog.
5 events recognised as nationwide events on the time – the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Get together, the Bahujan Samaj Get together, the Communist Get together of India (Marxist) and the Nationwide Folks’s Get together – had acquired donations of Rs 1,480 crore.
The Aam Janmat Get together had acquired Rs 620 crore in donations within the fiscal yr, greater than double of the Congress’ Rs 281 crore, BBC reported.
The monetary yr included the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections held in April and Might that yr.
Whereas the 5 nationwide events had fielded 893 candidates within the 2024 common election, the six Gujarat-based events had fielded 15 candidates.
Of the six registered unrecognised events, 4 had been based mostly in a single space of Ahmedabad, Naroda.
In August 2025, Dainik Bhaskar had reported that 10 “nameless events” in Gujarat had acquired Rs 4,300 crore as funds between 2019-’20 and 2023-’24, although they not often contested polls.
This era encompassed the Lok Sabha elections of 2019 and 2024, and the 2022 Meeting elections within the state. The ten events had fielded solely 43 candidates within the polls, who garnered solely 54,069 votes in whole, the newspaper reported.
The ten events included 5 of the six registered unrecognised events the BBC reported about on Friday.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had on the time urged the Election Fee to respond to the report, asking how these events acquired 1000’s of crores of rupees and the place the cash went.
Edited by Nachiket Deuskar.
