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By Oishani Bhattacharya
Following an order by a five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, the Election Commission of India (ECI) published the electoral bond details on their official website on March 14 in two parts. The first part included details of the donors such as the date of donation, the name of the purchaser and the amount. Part 2 comprised the details specific to each political party, such as dates, party names and amounts. This revealed that the BJP had encashed electoral bonds worth ₹6060.5 crores, the highest among all the political parties. The data regarding who donated to whom is yet to be published.
Against the backdrop of this, social media users have singled out an entity named ‘Hub Power Company’ from the purchaser list. The said company had purchased electoral bonds on April 18, 2019. Several users claim that the company is from Pakistan. While some claimed that it had donated to the BJP, others stated that donations were made to Congress.
X (formerly Twitter) page Samajwadi Prahari (@SP_Prahari) affiliated with the Samajwadi Party tweeted on March 15: “Pakistani company Hub Power Company donated Rs 95 lakh to BJP during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. At the same time, our soldiers were also killed in Pulwama. I have never seen a traitorous party like the BJP. Why does the BJP love Pakistani companies so much? This was the reason why BJP wanted to hide the donations.” (Archive)
https://twitter.com/SP_Prahari/status/1768465461006754269?t=QhP69n3RSfpU0uG4mIbCpw&s=19
X page We Dravidians (@WeDravidians) made the same claim on March 14. The tweet has received over 1.18 lakh views and has been retweeted over 1,400 times. (Archive)
https://twitter.com/WeDravidians/status/1768324611035562328?t=-wk9jgHt_mqmKyuZEG6hOg&s=19
X user Vivekanand Gupta 🇮🇳(Modi Ka Parivar) (@vivekanandg), whose bio says he is the secretary of BJP Mumbai, made the claim that Pakistan-based ‘Hub Power Company’ had donated to Congress. The tweet has received over 43,000 views and has been retweeted over 600 times. (Archive)
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