Electoral bonds: In 2020-21, 87 persons donated Rs 50.87 crores

Hyderabad: The minimum purchase of electoral bonds in the year 2020 was Rs 1,000 by Poonam Agarwal and Rs 1,000 in the year 2021 by N Ramamoorthy. From professionals, the list shows Dr Mandeep Sharma who purchased an electoral bond of Rs 15 lakhs.

In 2020, only nine individual donors purchased bonds to the tune of Rs 11 crores, 24 lakhs and one thousand. In 2021, 78 individuals purchased electoral bonds and their total amount was Rs 39 crores, 63 lakhs and 76,000. Of these 78, 6 are women who purchased bonds worth Rs 62 lakhs.

Two women who purchased the bonds in 2019 are on the list from 2021; Sarita Mirania Agarwal and Seema Mirania Agarwala with Rs 20 lakhs in donations each. In 2019, they both purchased electoral bonds of Rs 10 lakhs each.

SBI submitted incomplete information

The names of the states from where these bonds have been taken are yet to be revealed. Only the amount, date and name of the purchasers are in the list published by the Election Commission of India.

In 2020, individual donors who have purchased electoral bonds with a total worth Rs 11,24,01,000 (more than Rs 11 crores) are:

1) Raju Kumar Sharma: Rs 10 crores

2) Kirtan Ajmera: Rs 6 lakhs

3) Mukesh Ajmera: Rs 3 lakhs

4) Poorvi Dugar Ajmera: Rs 2 lakhs

5) Ronak Ajmera: Rs 20 lakhs

6) Tilak Ajmera: Rs 3 lakhs

7) Bangur Shree: Rs 40 lakhs

8) Poonam Agarwal: Rs 1,000

9) Sarojit Kumar Dey: Rs 50 lakhs

In 2021, individual donors purchased electoral bonds with a total worth of Rs 39,63,76,000 (more than Rs 39 crores). They are:

1) Ajay Gupta: Rs 2 crores

2) N Ramamoorthy: Rs 1,000

3) Prushutoam Lal Gupta: Rs 3 cores

4) Rahul Bhatia: Rs 20 crores

5) Bharat Ajmera: Rs 3 lakhs

6) Ishani Bhavik Ajmera: Rs 5 lakhs

7) Kirtan Ajmera: Rs 5 lakhs

8) Mukesh Ajmera: Rs 3 lakhs

9) Paresh Ajmera: Rs 2 lakhs

10) Poorvi Durga Ajmera: Rs 3 lakhs

11) Tilak Ajmera: Rs 3 lakhs

12) Agarwal M Bhishan: Rs 30 lakhs

13) Dr Mandeep Sharma: Rs 15 lakhs

14) Kishan Mirania Agarwal: Rs 30 lakhs

15) Saurabh Bakliwal: Rs 40 lakhs

16) Raman Sharma: Rs 20 lakhs

17) Ronak Ajmera: Rs 5 lakhs

18) Sarita Mirania Agarwal: Rs 20 lakhs

19) Seema Mirania Agarwala: Rs 20 lakhs

20) Bhudutt Jangid: Rs 5 lakhs

21) Vikram Singh: Rs 5 lakhs

22) Abhay Shukla: Rs 20 lakhs

23) Namit Puri: Rs 30 lakhs

24) Sanjay Kumar: Rs 10 lakhs

25) Sarojit Kumar Dey: Rs 91 lakhs

26) Deepak Kumar Agarwal: Rs 6 lakhs

27) Rajesh M Agarwal: Rs 2 cores

28) Suman Agarwal: Rs 4 lakhs

29) Gourab Roy: Rs 30 lakhs

30) Rajeev Kumar Sharma: Rs 10 lakhs

31) Rupa H Shah: Rs 11 lakhs

32) Rakesh Kumar Sharma: Rs 25 lakhs

33) Anand Pimparkar: Rs 8 lakhs

34) Deepak Kumar Gaddhyan: Rs 50 lakhs

35) Achint Maheshwari: Rs 5 lakhs

36) Anil Kumar Kedia: Rs 5 lakhs

37) Anuj Kumar Jain: Rs 6 lakhs

38) Arun Kumar Ganeriwala: Rs 2 lakhs

39) Ashok Dalmia: Rs 3 lakhs

40) Ashih Raha: Rs 3 lakhs

41) Atul Kumar Singh: Rs 7 lakhs

42) Deepak Gurum: Rs 1 lakh

43) Hitesh D Shah: Rs 50 lakhs (paid over multiple times in October 2021)

44) Josyula Venkatesh: Rs 5 lakhs

45) Monika: Rs 5 lakhs

46) Narayan Poddar: Rs 5 lakhs

47) Neeraj Gandhi: Rs 3 lakhs

48) Nitin Bansal: Rs 5 lakhs

49) Pramod Bajoria: Rs 5 lakhs

50) Rahul Gupta: Rs 4 lakhs

51) Rakesh Kumar Agarwal: Rs 7 lakhs

52) Rajesh Sharma: Rs 7 lakhs

53) Sagun Tulsyan: Rs 10 lakhs

54) Sanjay Kumar Sinha: Rs 1 lakh

55) Tavinder Singh Kohli: Rs 5 crores

56) Vikash Gupta: Rs 3 lakhs

57) Vikash Nahata: Rs 7 lakhs

58) Vineet Gupta: Rs 4 lakhs

59) Vivek Agarwal: Rs 5 lakhs

60) Yogesh Manpuria: Rs 7 lakhs

61) Amit Agarwal: Rs 1 lakh

62) Anand Agarwal: Rs 75,000

63) Anil Kumar Malawat: Rs 5 lakhs

64) Ankit Agarwal: Rs 1 lakhs

65) Arun Kumar Joshi: Rs 3 lakhs

66) Bimala Prassana Singh Roy: Rs 4 lakhs

67) Binod Kumar Agarwal: Rs 10 lakhs

68) Manish Kumar Khakolia: Rs 4 lakhs

69) Manoj Kumar Agarwal: Rs 2 lakhs

70) Payel Agarwal: Rs 3 lakhs

71) Pradip Kumar Das: Rs 1,50,000

72) Rahul Agarwal: Rs 1 lakhs

73) Rahul Bhuwania: Rs 1 lakhs

74) Rajendra Agarwal: Rs 20 lakhs

75) Sandeep Jhunjunwala: Rs 15 lakhs and Rs 50,000

76) Surbhi Agarwal: Rs 10 lakhs

77) Sushil Kumar Kothari: Rs 4 lakhs and 50,000

78) Uttam Kumar Ghosh: Rs 2,50,000

An electoral bond is issued as a promissory note, which is bearer in character i.e. it does not carry the name of the buyer or payee, no ownership information is recorded and the political party is presumed to be its owner, as explained by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), one of the organisations which filed a petition against the scheme.

The Supreme Court asked the State Bank of India to furnish all the data to the Election Commission of India which has published the data on its website.