Press Release: The total donations of the National parties during FY 2021-22 increased by Rs 187.026 cr, an increase of 31.50% from the previous financial year 2020-21

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Date: 14 February, 2023

Analysis of Donations Received above Rs 20,000 by National Political Parties – FY 2021-22

This report, prepared by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), focuses on donations above Rs 20,000, received by the National political parties during the financial year 2021-22, as per details 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) (CPI(M)), 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-above-rs-20000-national-political-parties-fy-2021-22

Executive Summary

Status of Submission of Contribution Reports of National Parties, FY 2021-22

The due date for submission of contribution reports for the parties was 30 September 2022.
Only BSP, NCP and NPEP submitted their contribution reports on time while INC, AITC, CPI(M), BJP and CPI submitted after a delay of 30 days, 33 days, 34 days, 37 days and 52 days respectively.

S. No.	Political Party	Financial Year 2021-22: Due date for filing reports: 30 September, 2022
S. No.	Political Party	Party Code	Date of Submission	No. of days by which delayed
1	Bahujan Samaj Party	BSP	29 June 2022	-
2	Nationalist Congress Party	NCP	12 September 2022	-
3	National People's Party	NPEP	29 September 2022	-
4	Indian National Party	INC	31 October 2022	30 Days
5	All India Trinamool Congress	AITC	03 November 2022	33 Days
6	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	CPI(M)	04 November 2022	34 Days
7	Bharatiya Janata Party	BJP	07 November 2022	37 Days
8	Communist Party of India	CPI	22 November 2022	52 Days

Donations above Rs 20,000 to National Parties from all over India, FY 2021-22

The total donations (above Rs 20, 000) declared by the National parties for FY 2021-22 was Rs 780.774 cr from 7141 donations.
A total of Rs 614.626 cr from 4957 donations was declared by BJP followed by Rs 95.459 cr from 1255 donations declared by INC. The donations declared by BJP are more than three times the aggregate declared by INC, NCP, CPI, CPI(M), NPEP and AITC for the same period.
BSP declared that the party did not receive any donations above Rs 20,000 during FY 2021-22, as it has been declaring for the past 16 years.

Comparison of donations received by National parties during FY 2020-21 and FY 2021-22

The total donations of the National parties during FY 2021-22 increased by Rs 187.026 cr, an increase of 31.50% from the previous financial year 2020-21.
Donations to BJP increased from Rs 477.545 cr during FY 2020-21 to Rs 614.626 cr during FY 2021-22 (28.71% increase). While the party’s donations decreased by 41.49% during FY 2020-21 in comparison to FY 2019-20.
INC’s donations increased from Rs 74.524 cr during FY 2020-21 to Rs 95.459 cr during FY 2021-22 (28.09% increase). While INC’s donations decreased by 46.39% between FY 2019-20 and FY 2020-21.
In comparison to the previous financial year, the decrease in donations declared by CPI(M) was 22.06% (Rs 2.846 cr), and by NPEP was 40.50% (Rs 24.10 lakhs).

State-wise donations to National Parties, FY 2021-22

Segregation of donations according to state was made by ADR based on the addresses provided by the parties in their donations report to the ECI.
A total of Rs 395.849 cr was donated to the National Parties from Delhi, followed by Rs 105.3523 cr from Maharashtra and Rs 44.9584 cr from Gujarat.
A total of Rs 12.2638 cr (1.571% of total donations received by the National parties, FY 2021-22) could not be attributed to any State/ Union Territory due to incomplete/undeclared information provided by the parties.

Donors from corporates/business sectors Vs. individual donors

2551 donations to the National parties were made by corporate/business sectors amounting to Rs 625.883 cr (80.1619% of total donations) while 4506 individual donors donated Rs 153.328 cr (19.6379% of total donations) to the parties during FY 2021-22.
2068 donations from corporate/business sectors were made to BJP (Rs 548.808 cr) while 2876 individual donors donated Rs 65.774 cr to the party during FY 2021-22.
INC received a total of Rs 54.567 cr via 170 donations from corporate/business sectors and Rs 40.892 cr via 1085 individual donors during FY 2021-22.
BJP (Rs 548.808 cr) received more than seven times the total amount (Rs 77.075 cr) of corporate donations declared by all other National parties for the FY 2021-22.

Top donors to National Parties, FY 2021-22

Prudent Electoral Trust donated a total of Rs 353 cr to BJP and INC together and is the top donor to parties that received the maximum donations. The Trust donated Rs 336.50 cr to BJP (54.75% of total funds received by the party) and Rs 16.50 cr to INC (17.28% of total funds received by the party).
Mrs. Ranjana Sachdev Santosh donated Rs 16.00 cr from 1 donation to NCP and Nuvoco Vistas Corporation Limited donated Rs 15.00 cr from 1 donation to INC.
Pacific Exports donated Rs 10.50 cr from 7 donations, Ab General Electoral Trust donated Rs 10.00 cr from 2 donations, Shreeji Shipping donated Rs 10.00 cr from 1 donation and Yashoda Super Speciality Hospital donated Rs 10.00 cr from 10 donations to BJP in the FY 2021-22.

Observations of ADR

INC, AITC, CPI(M), BJP and CPI submitted contribution reports after a delay of 30 days, 33 days, 34 days, 37 days and 52 days, respectively.
It is to be noticed that BJP has declared Rs 614.526 cr but the actual calculated amount is Rs 614.626 cr in its donation statement for FY 2021-22.
3 National parties, BJP, INC and CPI(M) had not declared PAN details of 452 donations through which the parties collected a total of Rs 10.843 cr (1.389% of the total donations declared by National parties).
6 National Parties (INC- Rs 69.40 lakhs, BJP-Rs 46.80 lakhs, NCP- Rs 17.00 lakhs, CPI(M)- Rs 2.00 lakhs, NPEP- Rs 1.00 lakh and CPI- Rs 30,000) have declared Rs 1.365 cr from 62 donations having missing/incorrect PAN details.
BJP declared 1140 donations of Rs 12.673 cr, CPI(M) collected 372 donations worth Rs 6.339 cr, AITC collected 7 donations of Rs 43.00 lakhs, INC collected 17 donations of Rs 41.00 lakhs and NPEP collected 7 donations of Rs 17.70 lakhs 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.
As done for the last 16 years, BSP has remarkably declared again that the party did not receive any donations above Rs 20,000.