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Electoral Bonds: Congress President M Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said that a special investigation into the electoral bonds scheme should be conducted and BJP's bank accounts must be frozen till its completion...
He added that while the BJP amassed crores through electoral bonds, the Congress faced the seizure of its bank account despite receiving donations...
The electoral bond data released by the Election Commission of India showed that the BJP encashed by far the highest amount of EBs (Rs.6,060.52 crore in total) among political parties...
Of Rs 12,769 crore worth electoral bonds encashed by the political parties in the last five years, ruling BJP bagged almost half, and one-third of this came during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections..
The Congress, which got the third-highest amount among parties after the BJP and Trinamool Congress, redeemed a total of Rs. 1,421.87 crore in 3,146 bonds from April 12, 2019 to January 22, 2024...
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