Contributions: Assembly polls: AAP declares all, from 30 to contributions in lakhs of rupees | India News

NEW DELHI: Contributions to the Aam Aadmi Party, which became a national party earlier this year, totalled Rs 37.1 crore in 2022-23, which was slightly less than the Rs 38.2 crore donations declared by the party in 2021-22.
Aam Aadmi Party, in its contribution report for 2022-23 submitted to the Election Commission on September 30 and placed in the public domain on Wednesday, maintained its tradition of declaring all donations and not just those above Rs 20,000 as required by Section 29 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.The contributions declared by the party, which is in office in Delhi and Punjab, range from as little as Rs 30 to lakhs of rupees.

Among electoral trusts, Prudent Electoral Trust contributed Rs 90 lakh to AAP in the last fiscal, in two instalments of Rs 45 lakh each.
Contributions — which are essentially direct donations by individuals, companies and electoral trusts and different from contributions by way of electoral bonds — to Aam Aadmi Party had risen sharply from Rs 11.3 crore in 2020-21 to Rs 38.2 crore in 2021-22. In the last decade, the highest contributions to AAP had come in 2014-15.

So far, only two national parties have filed their 2022-23 contribution reports with EC.