New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday came down heavily on the BJP citing a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms, which states that the ruling party has earned Rs 3,623.28 crore in 2019-2020. The reports also cited that a bulk of the donations came through electoral bonds. The Congress leader put out a post along with a screenshot of a news report captioning it, "BJP's income rose by 50%. And yours?".
The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), in its report, mentioned that the BJP's expenditure during that period was around Rs 1,651.022 crore (45.57 per cent) and the total income was Rs 3,623.28 crore. However, Congress' though it earned Rs 682.21 crore, they had spent Rs 998.158 crore.
Total Income of National Parties for FY 2019-20
"The total Income of the National Parties has been compiled from the income from various sources pan India, as submitted in their Income Tax Returns. 7 National Parties (BJP, INC, CPM, NCP, BSP, AITC and CPI) have declared a total income of Rs 4758.206 cr, collected from all over India. BJP has shown the highest income amongst the National Parties, an income of Rs 3623.28 cr during FY 2019-20. This forms 76.15% of the total income of 7 National Parties during FY 2019-20. INC declared the second-highest income of Rs 682.21 cr which forms 14.34% of the total income of the 7 National Parties. CPI declared the least income of Rs 6.581 cr which forms a mere 0.14% of the total income of the 7 National Parties during the FY 2019-20," the ADR report stated.
Comparison of the total income of National Political Parties between FY 2018-19 & FY 2019-20
"Between FY 2018-19 and 2019-20, the income of BJP increased by 50.34% (Rs 1213.20 cr) from Rs 2410.08 cr during FY 2018-19 to Rs 3623.28 cr during FY 2019-20. Income of INC decreased by 25.69% (Rs 235.82 cr) from Rs 918.03 cr during FY 2018-19 to Rs 682.21 cr during FY 2019-20. Between FY 2018-19 and 2019-20, the highest percentage increase in income was declared by NCP of 68.77% (Rs 34.873 cr) from Rs 50.71 cr during FY 2018-19 to Rs 85.583 cr during FY 2019-20. Between FY 2018-19 and 2019-20, the income of AITC, BSP and CPI decreased by 25.42% (Rs 48.974 cr), 16.53% (Rs 11.534 cr) and 7.96% (Rs 56.90 lakhs), respectively," the report further mentioned.
Rahul continues his relentless attack on the ruling BJP
Rahul Gandhi has been targeting the PM Modi led NDA government on issues related to unemployment, inflation, COVID-19 vaccination and the state of the economy. A few days earlier, the Gandhi scion had lambasted Centre for its 'National Monetisation Pipeline' and accused the government of putting “India on sale".
