New Delhi, April 8 -- Five national political parties of India received Rs.2544.278 crore contributions from 12,547 donations in 2023-24, a recent report by election watchdog Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) has revealed.

Of this, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received donations to the tune of Rs.2,243.947 crore in amounts of Rs.20,000 or more in 2023-24. This amount is about seven times the collection by the opposition Congress party ( Rs.281.48 cr from 1994 donations), as per the reports submitted by the political parties to the Election Commission of India (EC).

Apart from the BJP and the Congress, the four national political parties are the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the National People's Party (NPEP), and the Communis...