The Election Commission has uploaded the new data of electoral bonds received from the Supreme Court registry on March 16 on its website on Sunday. The new data includes information on bonds for the financial year 2017-18.
On March 14, the poll panel had uploaded on the website the information about bonds purchased or cashed after April 2019 in two lists of 763 pages. One list contained information about those who bought bonds, while the other contained details of bonds received by political parties.
On the instructions of the Supreme Court, State Bank of India (SBI) had provided information related to the electoral bonds to the Election Commission on March 14. However, it did not contain the unique alpha numeric numbers of the bonds. The court issued a notice to SBI on March 15 and sought its reply by March 18.
According to Election Commission data, BJP has encashed electoral bonds of worth Rs 6,986 crore. The party has received the maximum amount of Rs 2,555 crore in 2019-20. At the same time, DMK received Rs 656.5 crore through electoral bonds, which also includes Rs 509 crore from lottery king Santiago Martin's Future Gaming.
