Check | Home Minister Amit Shah’s Remarks on Electoral Bonds Contradicts Public Data

Shah later went on to say that the BJP has over 300 members of Parliament (MPs) and another 11 crore members working for the party, and had received around Rs 6,000 crore. He further alleged that if the other parties had similar number of MPs, then their collection from electoral bonds would have been much higher than the BJP.

This claim was later picked up by several users and shared on different social media platforms. Archives of such posts can be found here, here, and here.

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What’s the problem with Amit Shah’s remarks?: According to the data released by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the total worth of electoral bonds that were issued was approximately Rs 12,000 crore. So, Shah claiming that Opposition parties had received about Rs 14,000 crore worth of electoral bonds contradicts the data available in the public domain.

The Quint recently highlighted that the BJP received almost 50 percent of the total electoral bonds’ amount. The Trinamool Congress…