Yashoda Hospital
Yashoda Super Specialty Hospital bought bonds worth Rs 162 crore of which Rs 64 crore or 39 percent went to the Congress party from July 2021 up to October 2023.
Future Gaming
Lottery giant Future Gaming and Hotel Services, owned by Santiago Martin, gave Rs 50 crore to the party through bonds and all of it in April 2023.
Rithwik Projects Private Ltd
Rithwik Projects Private Ltd, which is founded by Andhra Pradesh BJP MP Chintakunta Munuswamy Ramesh gave the Congress Rs 30 crore. On March 22 2023, SVJN Limited, a Himachal Pradesh state-run clean energy PSU, signed a contract agreement with Rithwik Projects worth Rs 1,098 crore for the Sunni dam project. Three weeks later, on April 11, 2023, Rithwik Projects donated Rs 30 crore – 66 percent of its total bonds purchases of Rs 45 crore – to the Congress.
Other donors
Several well-known companies, firms and individuals are among the party’s political funders. These include Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, head of Bengaluru-based pharma company Biocon, who contributed Rs 1 crore, and Jindal group which paid Rs 22 crore in bonds.
Chennai Greenwoods Private Limited, a construction company which is owned by the Ramky group, also donated Rs 15 crore. The chairman of Ramky group is YSRCP Rajya Sabha MP Ayodhya Rama Reddy.
Pharmaceutical companies Natco Pharma donated Rs 12.25 crore, Reddy’s Labs Rs 14 crore, Cipla Rs 2.2 crore. Entertainment firms PVR and Inorbit donated Rs 2 crore each.
Missing bonds
The Congress party received a total of Rs 1,952 crore through electoral bonds since the inception of the scheme in 2018. However, the names of purchasers who bought bonds before April 12, 2019, are not known as the Supreme Court directed the State Bank of India to make public only the data of donors after that date.
Due to this, data for only 2,908 bonds worth Rs 1,351 crore of the total 3,146 bonds that the Congress received can be matched with the list of donors that the EC released on Thursday. This amount is 69 percent of the total money that the party got through electoral bonds. The buyers of the remaining 238 bonds are likely to remain unknown.
Between April 15 and 10 May 2019, ahead of the parliamentary elections the party received Rs 97.7 crore, although it continued to receive bonds during the rest of the year.
This report is part of a collaborative project involving three news organisations – Newslaundry, Scroll, The News Minute – and independent journalists.
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