New Delhi, Dec. 22 -- West Bengal's ruling party, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) received Rs.184.96 crore from 448 donors as political donations in 2024-25, according to the party's contribution reports shared with the Election Commission of India.

This amount is about three-fold more than Rs.64.24 crore that Mamata Banerjee-led party had received as funds in 2023-24.

The TMC's political funding after the 2021 assembly victory was heavily driven by electoral bond donations, which surged year-on-year - especially in 2022 and 2023.

The electoral bonds, the anonymous donations, were however scrapped in February 2024. Since, then the funding has been primarily through electoral trusts.

An electoral trust is a non-profit entity set up by mul...