Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Friday alleged that electoral bond data revealed a day earlier exposed the BJP’s “corrupt tactics” such as taking bribes, demanding donations for company protection, brokerage and money laundering through shell companies. Is.
Party general secretary Jairam Ramesh also said that the party continues to demand unique bond ID numbers, so that it can accurately match donors and recipients.
“BJP’s hafta vosal The strategy is to raid a target through ED/CBI/IT and then search Week For the protection of the Company (“Donation”). At least 14 of the top 30 donors have been raided,” Ramesh alleged.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on March 14 uploaded data of now-expired electoral bonds for political donations on its website as per Supreme Court (SC) orders. In compliance with the Supreme Court order, SBI handed over the electoral bond data to the election body earlier this week
Also read: Electoral bond case: What did the Supreme Court say to SBI about the unique number?
From steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal to billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal’s Airtel, Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta, ITC, Mahindra & Mahindra and a lesser-known Future Gaming and Hotel Services were among the major buyers of the now-expired electoral bonds to make political donations. .
Following the Supreme Court direction, State Bank of India (SBI), the authorized seller of electoral bonds, shared the data with the election panel on March 12.
The apex court had given time till 5 pm on March 15 to the Election Commission to upload the data on its website.
SBI said a total of 22,217 electoral bonds of various denominations were purchased by donors between April 1, 2019, and February 15 this year, of which 22,030 were encashed by political parties.
The Congress leader said that another big issue is missing data. The data provided by SBI starts only in April 2019, but SBI sold the first tranche of bonds in March 2018.
“A total of bonds worth Rs 2,500 crore are missing from this data. Where is the data of these missing bonds from March 2018 to April 2019? For example, in the first tranche of bonds, BJP secured 95% of the funds. Whom is BJP trying to save? Are you trying?” He said.
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Published: March 15, 2024, 02:08 PM IST
