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New Delhi: Future Gaming and Hotel Services (Lottery Martin) and Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Ltd head the list of donors to parties through electoral bonds..
Late on Thursday, the Election Commission of India (ECI) published details of bond buyers and beneficiaries since April 2019, as per the Supreme Courts orders, ahead of the 18th Lok Sabha elections...
The data release provides details of electoral bonds worth over Rs 12,000 crore..
More data on electoral bonds, as submitted by political parties to the ECI, is also likely to be published soon, once the apex court releases the documents to the poll panel..
It is also expected that petitioners will move the apex court once again to seek that SBI reveal the unique code data on electoral bonds to conclusively establish donor and recipient details...
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