10 regional parties including Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Biju Janata Dal (BJD), YSR Congress, Janata Dal United (JDU) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have proposed to receive Rs 852.88 crore as donations in 2021-22 through electoral bonds. announced. A non-governmental organization (NGO) working for electoral reforms gave this information. Citing official data, Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said in a report that the total income of 36 regional parties in this financial year stood at Rs 1,213 crore. The report analyzed the total income and expenditure of 36 out of 54 regional parties during 2021-22. The analysis was done on the basis of their audit reports provided by these parties to the Election Commission of India. It states, “Ten regional parties – DMK, BJD, TRS, YSR Congress, JDU, SP (Samajwadi Party), AAP, SAD (Shiromani Akali Dal), MGP (Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Paksha) and TDP – have Announced receipt of donations through electoral bonds of Rs 852.88 crore for TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samithi) was later renamed Bharat Rashtra Samithi. This party is in power in Telangana. The report said that among these parties, the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu reported the highest income of Rs 318 crore, which is 26.27 per cent of the total income of all the parties included in the analysis. After this, BJD declared income of Rs 307 crore and TRS Rs 218 crore. The total income of the top five parties stood at Rs 1024.424 crore or 84.44 per cent of the total income of the political parties included in the analysis. As per the analysis, out of the parties for which the data is available for 2020-21 and 2021-22, 20 parties showed an increase in their income and 15 parties showed a decline in their income. The total income of the 35 parties increased from Rs 565.424 crore in 2020-21 to Rs 1,212.708 crore in 2021-22, a total increase of 114.48 per cent. The total declared expenditure of 36 regional parties for the year 2021-22 was Rs 288 crore. The total expenditure incurred by the top five parties is Rs 176.779 crore or 61.35 per cent of the total expenditure reported by the 36 political parties. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version=’2.0′; n.queue=();t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)(0); s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,’script’, ‘ fbq(‘init’, ‘550264998751686’); fbq(‘track’, ‘PageView’);