Story in numbers: Income and expenditure of national parties

The total includes income from various sources all over India, as shown in their income-tax returns

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• The Indian National Congress (INC) is the only national party which had not yet given a copy of its audited report to the Election Commission for 2014-15 at the time of release of this report
   
• The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the CPI (Marxist) have declared a total income of Rs 1,275.8 crore, collected from all over India
   
• In 2014-15, the BJP has shown the highest income among the national parties, with a total income of Rs 970.4 crore, which accounts for 76 per cent of the total income of national parties together.CPI-M declared the second highest income of Rs 123.9 crore, which forms 9.7 per cent of the total income of national parties
   
• CPI declared the least income of Rs 1.8 crore, a mere 0.14 per cent of the total income of the national parties in 2014-15
   
• The audit report of political parties contains information on the various sources of income and items of expenditure of the parties over a financial year - in this case, 2014-15.
   
• Grant/ donations/ contributions or funds collected by the parties was the top source of income of the five national parties. The BJP declared the highest income from donations, which amounted to Rs 940.4 crore, followed by BSP with Rs 92.8 crore and NCP with Rs 38.8 crore. CPI-M declared 'voluntary donations' of Rs 59.3 crore but the party's income-tax annexure claimed they received Rs 59.1 crore as voluntary contributions and Rs 15 lakh via sale of coupons. NCP was the only party which declared collection from sale of coupon in the main income-expenditure statement. The party declared collecting Rs 27.2 crore from the sale of such coupons