India, Jan. 28 -- Donations to the Bharatiya Janata Party, ahead of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, jumped by 87%, reaching Rs.3,967.14 crore, showed the ruling party's annual audit report for 2023-2024 that the Election Commission of India published recently. The share of electoral bonds in the BJP's total contributions dropped to less than half during the same period.

According to the report, the BJP received Rs.3,967.14 crore in voluntary contributions in 2023-2024, compared to Rs.2,120.06 crore in 2022-2023.

According to the Trinamool Congress's annual audit report for 2023-2024, Mamata Banerjee's party's income increased to Rs.646.39 crore from Rs.333.46 crore the previous year. Electoral bonds accounted for about 95% of its income, ...