New Delhi, April 7 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received donations of Rs.2,243.947 crore in amounts of Rs.20,000 or more, in 2023-24, a latest report has found. The amount is about seven times the collection of Rs.281.48 crore by the Congress party, as per the reports submitted by the political parties to the Election Commission of India (EC).

According to an analysis by the election watchdog Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), the BJP, the ruling party at the Centre, declared more than six times the aggregate donations declared by four other national parties-the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the National People's Party (NPEP), and the Communist Party of India M)-for the same period.

Among six political parties, the ...