Electoral bonds: Forget companies, 85 members of eight families donated Rs 55.52 Cr in 2022

Hyderabad: Forget big corporates, even families purchased electoral bonds to donate to political parties.

In 2022, members of eight families purchased the bond from the State Bank of India.

A total amount of Rs 555286000 was purchased by 85 people in 2022.

Pawan Agarwal purchased an electoral bond of Rs 1000 in December. Ritesh Agarwal purchased a bond of Rs 5000 in July.

Here is a list of cumulative figures of electoral bonds purchased by families:

· Patni, total purchases of Rs 14 cores

· Agarwal, total purchases, Rs 11 crore, 20 lakh and six thousand.

· Rao, total purchase of Rs 3 crore

· Bahety, total purchases Rs one crore and 50 lakh

· Aggarwal, total purchases of Rs one crore and 50 lakh

· Somani, total purchases of Rs 45 lakh

· Binani, total purchases of Rs 70 lakh

· Goenka, total purchases of Rs 40 lakh

Repeat purchaser

Dr Mandeep Sharma is a repeat purchaser. He first purchased a bond of Rs 15 lakh in 2021 A year later he purchased a Rs 10 lakh bond.

Purchased twice in 2022

Rishab Khemka and Ishwar Chand Khemk purchased twice in the year. The first purchase was of Rs 4 lakh and the second purchase was of Rs 4 lakh in the first and last financial quarter of the year. Deepak Khemka also purchased twice in a year of Rs 3 lakh and Rs 5 lakh.

The list of individual purchasers of Electoral Bonds for 2022:

1) Pratiksha Doshi, Rs 75 lakh

2) Rajesh Mannalal Agarwal, Rs 2 crore

3) Naval Kishore Agarwal, Rs 4 crore

4) Rajesh Mannalal Agrawal, Rs 5 crore

5) Ashish Agarwal, Rs 10 lakh

6) Pratibha Agarwal, Rs 10 lakh

7) Ritesh Agarwal, Rs 5000 (on July 4, 2022)

8) Pawan Agarwal, Rs 1000

9) Alok Kumar Somani, Rs 15 crore

10) Amit Somani, Rs 15 lakh

11) Deepak Khemkha, Rs 3 lakh

12) Manju Shree Somani, Rs 20 lakh

13) Nidhi Somani, Rs 5 lakh

14) Tanushree Somani, Rs 5 lakh

15) Parikshit Somani, Rs 15 lakh

16) Rishab Khemka, Ishwar Chand Khemk, Rs 4 lakh

17) Diwakar Nigam, Rs 25 lakh

18) Nirmal Kumar Bathwal, Rs 2 crore

19) Abhishek Tibrewal, Rs 10 lakh

20) Aditya Kumar Garg, Rs 1 crore

21) Reena Garg, Rs one crore

22) Aakansha Bahety, RS 10 lakh

23) Ankit Bahety, Rs 10 lakh

24) Bijay Ratan Bahety, Rs 10 lakh

25) Gaurav Bahety, Rs 10 lakh

26) Praveen Bahety, Rs 10 lakh

27) Prem Ratan Bahety, Rs 10 lakh

28) Ratan Bahety, Rs 10 lakh

29) Shyam Sunder Bahety, Rs 20 lakh

30) Sukhriti Gupta Bahety, Rs 5 lakh

31) Neha Bahety, Rs 10 lakh

32) Brijesh Binani, Rs 20 lakh

33) Mukund Binani, Rs 15 lakh

34) Srinivash Binani, Rs 20 lakh

35) Preeti Binani, Rs 15 lakh

36) Rahul Jagannath Joshi, Rs 5 crore

37) Harmesh Rahul Joshi, Rs 5 crore

38) Jyoti Ladha, Rs 15 lakh

39) Gourab Roy, Rs 20 lakh

40) Srabani Roy, Rs 5 lakh

41) Gorukanti Devendra Rao, Rs one crore

42) Gorukanti Surendra Rao, Rs one crore

43) Gorukanti Ravindra Rao, Rs one crore

44) Boravelli Bhupal Reddy, Rs one crore

45) Boravelli Ramulamma, Rs one crore

46) Koneru Raviteja, Rs 19 lakh and 90 thousand

47) Lokesh Kumar, Rs 19 lakh and 90 thousand

48) P Tejavardhan Reddy, Rs 50 lakh

49) Pavan Kumar Reddy Kunduru, Rs 50 lakh

50) Ravindranatha Reddy Bandi, Rs 50 lakh

51) Veera Raveendra, Rs 50 lakh

52) Deepal Khemka, Rs 5 lakh

53) Anand Shankaram Pimparkar, Rs 10 lakh

54) Dr Mandeep Sharma, Rs 10 lakh (October 6, 2022)

55) Anuj Goenka, Rs 10 lakh

56) Bal Kishan Goenka, Rs 10 lakh

57) Sushila Goenka, Rs 10 lakh

58) Shipra Goenka, Rs 10 lakh

59) Sanjay Kumar, Rs 15 lakh

60) Ashok Patni, Rs 2 crore

61) Suresh Patni, Rs 3 crore

62) Vineet Patni, Rs 2 crore

63) Kanwar Lal Patni, Rs 2 crore

64) Rishab Patni, Rs 2 cores

65) Vikas Patni, Rs 4 crore

66) Vinay Kumar Bhatt, Rs 15 lakh

67) Arunangshu Mukherjee, Rs 60 lakh

68) Ashok Kumar, Rs 20 lakh

69) Santosh Goyal, Rs 10 lakh

70) Prabhakar Rao Mandava, Rs 50 lakh

71) Abhinav Jain, Rs 2 lakh

72) Amit Gupta, Rs 2 lakh

73) Harshit Chhabra, Rs 2 lakh

74) Kulwant Singh, Rs 30 lakh

75) Manjit Kaur, Rs 50 lakh

76) Paramjit Singh S/O Jagjit Singh, Rs 20 lakh

77) Saurab Jain, Rs 5 lakh

78) Ashok Choudhary, Rs 10 lakh

79) Jyotsna Aggarwal, Rs 25 lakh

80) Khushbu Aggarwal, Rs 25 lakh

81) Prem Aggarwal, Rs 25 lakh

82) Sandeep Aggarwal, Rs 25 lakh

83) Usha Aggarwal, Rs 25 lakh

84) Vipin Aggarwal, Rs 25 lakh

85) Vineet Nanda, Rs 10 lakh

What are Electoral Bonds?

The Electoral Bond Scheme, 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 State Bank of India to furnish all the data to Election Commission of India which has published the data on its website.