CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president KS Alagiri on Monday said that the BJP regime led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ‘buried’ the electoral procedures and democracy in the country through electoral bonds.

Referring to a recent report of ADR (Association for Democratic Reforms) on political funding through electoral bonds for the past five years, which shows BJP garnering 94 per cent of the total contribution (corporate donations) in Gujarat, Alagiri in a statement said that as per the report, of the combined donation of Rs 174 crore received by all parties in donations in Gujarat from March 2018 to October 2022, BJP’s share was Rs 163 crore, which is 94 per cent of the total contribution with most donations in the denomination of Rs 1 crore.

Citing the finding of the report that a Gujarat based Prudent Electoral Trust has donated Rs 74 crore to BJP in one shot, the TNCC chief said that the BJP has amended laws in such a way that there was no need to disclose the donation details to the EC.

“There cannot be more blatant corruption than the BJP collecting donation cheques from corporate firms through cheques instead of taking bribes from them directly,” Alagiri said. “The Modi regime has given legal protection to corruption through such donations. It has buried election procedures and democracy in toto. A great threat has been posed to democracy because of EC abetting the same,” he added.