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India’s Electoral Bond Scheme, political donations made through electoral bonds, disclosures and related court proceedings.
Elon Musk shared investigations into Reliance-backed political advertising and a Reliance-linked firm's electoral bonds during his dispute over Starlink's India launch. The underlying records raise real transparency questions, but do not prove his allegation of interference; donor-level data also differs from a widely repeated ₹385 crore figure.
An Instagram graphic accurately cites BJP’s rise from about ₹464 crore in assets and ₹324 crore in income in FY2012-13 to ₹12,171 crore and ₹6,769 crore respectively in FY2024-25, but its “unicorn” and corporate balance-sheet analogy is not like-for-like. The more consequential finding is that BJP accounted for about 85% of the combined income declared…

