Press Release
Analysis of Donations Received above Rs 20,000 by National Political Parties – FY 2019-20
This report, prepared by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR),
focuses on donations received by the National Political Parties, above Rs
20,000, during the Financial Year 2019-20, as submitted by the parties to the
Election Commission of India (ECI). The National Parties include Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP), Indian National
Congress (INC), Bahujan Samaj Party
(BSP), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India
(Marxist) (CPM), All India Trinamool
Congress (AITC) and National
People’s Party (NPEP).
The reports in both English and Hindi are attached and to access them on our website, please visit: https://adrindia.org/content/analysis-donations-received-national-political-parties-%E2%80%93-fy-2019-20
Major Highlights of the report:
- In its contribution report, FY
2019-20, BJP declared a donation of Rs
4.80 lakhs from Amravati Municipal Corporation. No details of address, bank
name, PAN etc. have been provided by the party against this donation. A casual search on the internet shows that the aforesaid donor is a
Government of Maharashtra local body (as mentioned on their website). It raises questions on the legality of the contribution made by a
municipal corporation which is a governing body (whose Mayor and deputy Mayor
are from BJP) to a political party. Refer to the detailed report for more details.
- BJP declared receiving land from 3 donors of a total value of Rs 1.516 cr.
The three donations are from Jhanjhapur, Bihar each worth Rs 36.80 lakhs, Rs 50 lakhs and Rs 64.88 lakhs. Apart from the names, location of the
donors, PAN details of one donor, no other details have been provided like
donors’ address, bank details, PAN of remaining two donors, address and khasra
no. of land, type of land agricultural/commercial etc.
- The donations declared by BJP are more than 3 times the aggregate declared by the INC, NCP, CPI, CPM
and AITC for the same period (Rs 785.77 cr against Rs 228.035 cr declared by
the remaining parties).
- As done for the last 14 years, BSP has remarkably declared again that the party did not receive any
donations above Rs 20,000.
- 5 National parties, BJP, INC, NCP, CPI and CPM had
not declared PAN details of 1697 donations through which the parties
collected a total of Rs 47.121 cr (4.65% of the total donations declared
by National Parties). This is more
than the amount of donations (Rs 29.44 cr) declared by these National Parties
during FY 2018-19. BJP declared Rs 44.238 cr from 1582 donations where it
failed to provide PAN details of donors. INC collected Rs 82.60 lakhs from 29
donations without PAN. 42 donations declared by CPI (Rs 89.30 lakhs), 42 donations
from CPM (Rs 86.40 lakhs) and 2 donations from NCP (Rs 30 lakhs) do not have
PAN details.
- 3 National Parties (BJP, INC, and CPM) have declared Rs 13.757 cr from 94 donations having
missing/incorrect PAN details. This is six
times more than the amount of such donations declared by National Parties
in FY 2018-19.
- BJP declared
570 donations of Rs 149.875 cr, AITC collected
52 donations worth Rs 7.1035 cr, INC collected
25 donations of Rs 2.6875 cr and NCP collected
2 donations of Rs 3.005 cr having incomplete
cheque/DD details where cheque number, bank details on which it was drawn
and the date on which the cheque was received/ encashed is not provided. Thus,
without the complete cheque/DD details, it would be a time-consuming process to
link the donors against their donations and hence trace the money trail.
- CPM and CPI have also not declared the details of cheque and DD (cheque number, bank on
which it was drawn and the date) for a total of 39 donations amounting to Rs
1.0786 cr and 29 donations amounting to Rs 52.17 lakhs, respectively.
- After the analysis by ADR, it is found that the Prudent Electoral Trust declared 29 donations
worth Rs 217.75 cr to BJP in its annual report for FY 2019-20. While the
contribution report of BJP for FY 2019-20 declared 28 donations and doesn’t include one donation of Rs 1 cr
from Prudent Electoral Trust, as was declared by the trust in its report.
- Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) made eight donations to CPM in the FY 2019-20 worth a total of Rs 10 cr.
Executive Summary
- Status of Submission of
Contribution reports of National Parties, FY 2019-20
- The due date for submission of contribution reports for the parties was
30 September, 2020.
- BSP and NCP submitted their contribution reports on time while BJP, INC, CPM, CPI, AITC submitted
after a delay of 134 days, 90 days, 125 days, 153 days and 109 days,
respectively.
- The Contribution report of NPEP is not available on the website of
ECI at the time of preparation of this report. There has been a delay of 309 days and counting. Hence,
the donations’ data of the party has not been analysed.
S. No.
|
Political Party
|
Financial Year 2019-20 : Due date for filing
reports: 30.09.2020
|
Party Code
|
Date of Submission
|
No. of days by which delayed
|
1
|
Bahujan
Samaj Party
|
BSP
|
07 September 2020
|
-
|
2
|
Nationalist
Congress Party
|
NCP
|
25 September 2020
|
-
|
3
|
Indian
National Congress
|
INC
|
30 December 2020
|
90 Days
|
4
|
All
India Trinamool Congress
|
AITC
|
18 January 2021
|
109 Days
|
5
|
Communist
Party of India (Marxist)
|
CPM
|
03 February 2021
|
125 Days
|
6
|
Bharatiya
Janata Party
|
BJP
|
12 February 2021
|
134 Days
|
7
|
Communist
Party of India
|
CPI
|
02 March 2021
|
153 Days
|
8
|
National
People's Party
|
NPEP
|
-
|
309 Days
|
- Donations above Rs 20,000 to
National Parties from all over India, FY 2019-20
- The total donations (above Rs 20, 000) declared by the National parties
for FY 2019-20 was Rs 1013.805 cr
from 6363 donations.
- A total of Rs 785.77 cr (includes Rs
1.516 cr worth of land donations) from 5576 donations was declared by BJP
followed by Rs 139.016 cr from 350 donations declared by INC. The donations declared by BJP is more than three times the aggregate
declared by INC, NCP, CPI, CPM and AITC for the same period.
- BSP declared that the party did not receive any donations above Rs
20,000 during FY 2019-20, as it has been declaring for the past 14 years.
*Amount in case of one donation is
not declared by party(CPM)