BRS, DMK and YSRC received crores via poll bonds in 2022-23

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), which is in office in poll-bound Telangana, received contributions worth Rs 529 crore via the electoral bonds route in 2022-23, while DMK’s and YSR Congress Party’s inflows from bonds totalled Rs 185 crore and Rs 52 crore respectively in the same period. As per contribution reports of 23 regional parties for the year 2022-23 — placed by EC in the public domain till Thursday — they together received over Rs 975 crore through contributions, of which almost 80% was from electoral bonds received by three parties, namely BRS, DMK and YSR Congress Party.

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