₹6,000 cr to BJP, 12 times of Congress’ funding – Top political donors of 2024-25 revealed!

In the 2024-25 electoral cycle, the BJP outpaced Congress in political donations, securing over ₹6,000 crore compared to Congress’s mere ₹522 crore. This funding surge follows the Supreme Court’s scrapping of the Electoral Bond scheme, shifting the landscape of political financing in India.

Updated22 Dec 2025, 03:24 PM IST

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received ₹6,088 crore as political donations in 2024-25, the details available on Election Commission website have revealed.

The contribution that the ruling party has received in 2024-25, the year of Lok Sabha elections, is way more than ₹3,967 crore it received in 2023-24, according to the contribution reports submitted by political parties with the Election Commission of India.

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The BJP’s contribution is about 12 times the collection of the Congress party, which received ₹522 crore in the same year. The Congress had received ₹1,130 crore as political funding in 2023-24.

Top 10 donors of BJP in 2024-25
Donor	₹in Crores
Prudent electoral trust	2180.7
Progressive electoral trust	757.6
AB General electoral trust	606
New Democratic electoral trust	150
Serum Institute of India	100
Rungta group	95
Bajaj group	74
ITC group	72.5
Hero Enterprise	70
Vedanta group	65
(Source: Election Commission of India)

The political funding received by political parties in 2024-25 is significant as this was the first full year after the Electoral Bond scheme of political funding allowing anonymous donations was scrapped by Supreme Court of India in February 2024.

Electoral Trust is set up by multiple companies to distribute the contributions to the political parties.

Thirteen of the 19 electoral trusts have submitted the reports so far with the poll panel for the year 2024-25. An electoral trust is mandated to distribute at least 95% of contributions to parties it received in a fiscal.

The contribution reports available on the poll panel’s website are about the funds political parties received from donors who gave away more than ₹20,000, as well as contribution reports by the Prudent electoral trust about the donations they made to political parties.

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As per these reports, the BJP received 85 per cent of overall political funding from these trusts in 2024-25. A year before the Lok Sabha election year, the saffron party had cornered 56 per cent of overall funding.

As per the provisions in Indian tax laws, individuals and companies can receive a 100 per cent tax rebate (deduction) on eligible political donations under Section 80GGB of the Income Tax Act, 1961. This deduction reduces the company's total taxable income. — As per the provisions in Indian tax laws, individuals and companies can receive a 100 per cent tax rebate (deduction) on eligible political donations under Section 80GGB of the Income Tax Act, 1961. This deduction reduces the company’s total taxable income.

The reports mentions donations received between 1 April 2024 to 31, March 2025. Lok Sabha elections 2024 were held between 19 April and 1 June in 2024.

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