Countering the Opposition's charge on the now-scrapped electoral bonds system, Union Home Minister Amit Shah today asked if the Opposition parties would also describe donations they received through bonds as "extortion".
Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Limited was the top donor to BJP at Rs 584 crore and BRS at Rs 195 crore. The company also emerged as the second highest donor to three parties - DMK (Rs 85 crore), YSRCP (Rs 37 crore) and TDP (Rs 28 crore).
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Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Limited was the top donor to the Bharatiya Janata Party at Rs 584 crore and the Bharat Rashtra Samiti at Rs 195 crore.
BJP took away the major share of this amount - more than half - at Rs 6,058 crore. The next in the list was TMC with Rs 1,609 crore. Little behind was the Congress at Rs 1,421 crore