Electoral bond disclosures: Jalan group bonds well with political parties

Financial records of two group companies show that the donations gave are disproportionately high compared to the of the firms, at least in the years they purchased the bonds

A bulk of the political donations made by West Bengal’s top contributor, the Mahendra Kumar Jalan group, went to the BJP, according to data published by the Election Commission (EC).

The EC on Thursday evening put up on its website a fresh data set which includes alpha-numeric numbers matching the purchase of electoral bonds with the political parties that received the funds.

Four Jalan group companies contributed Rs 351.92 crore to the Bharatiya Janata Party: Keventer Foodpark Infra (Rs 144.5 crore), Madanlal Ltd (Rs 175.5 crore), MKJ Enterprises (Rs 26.92 crore) and Sasmal Infrastructure (Rs 5 crore). The Congress got