EC uploads data on electoral bonds, but matching donors with recipients of funds not possible

The Election Commission on Thursday uploaded on its website data about electoral bonds that the State Bank of India submitted to it two days ago. However, the documents uploaded by the poll panel do not mention the serial numbers of the bonds, which would have allowed for matching the entities that donated funds with the political parties that received them.

The poll panel said it has uploaded the data on an “as is where is basis”. The information can be accessed on this link.

The data has been uploaded in the form of two documents. One of them contains information on the dates on which electoral bonds were purchased, the entities that purchased them and the denominations of the bonds. The other one has information about the dates on which electoral bonds were encashed, the political parties that encashed them and the denominations of the bonds.

Details about electoral bonds purchased from April 12, 2019, to January 11 have been made public. The polling body has uploaded details of denominations of electoral bonds encashed between April 12, 2019, and January 24.

The Election Commission uploaded the data on its website in compliance with a Supreme Court judgement passed on February 15. On that day, the court struck down the electoral bonds scheme as unconstitutional, and...

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