Overview
- In FY25, contributions routed via electoral trusts jumped to ₹3,811 crore, roughly triple the previous year’s total.
- Three vehicles — Prudent, Progressive and New Democratic — handled about 98% of trust flows, with Prudent alone receiving ₹2,668 crore.
- The BJP received about ₹3,112 crore through trusts, or roughly 82% of such funds, compared with about ₹299 crore for the Congress.
- Trusts list all donors and all recipient parties, but filings do not map specific donors to specific parties, a gap critics describe as “anonymity-lite.”
- The Election Commission has issued no new trust-specific rules since the Supreme Court voided electoral bonds, even as debate intensifies over fairness and transparency.