{"id":62587,"date":"2024-03-15T22:16:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/15\/narendra-modi-bjp-given-570m-under-scheme-allowing-anonymous-donations"},"modified":"2024-03-15T22:16:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:16:54","slug":"narendra-modis-bjp-given-570m-under-scheme-allowing-anonymous-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62587","title":{"rendered":"Narendra Modi\u2019s BJP given \u00a3570m under scheme allowing anonymous donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Party of Indian prime minister was by far biggest beneficiary of electoral bonds, which were struck down as unconstitutional<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s election commission has published details of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of political donations, exposing how much prime minister Narendra Modi\u2019s party benefited from a controversial financing scheme.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data that was released, Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) received more than 60bn rupees (\u00a3570m) in donations through a scheme known as electoral bonds, which the Modi government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/feb\/01\/india-caps-cash-donations-to-parties-in-landmark-reform\">introduced in 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/15\/narendra-modi-bjp-given-570m-under-scheme-allowing-anonymous-donations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party of Indian prime minister was by far biggest beneficiary of electoral bonds, which were struck down as unconstitutionalIndia\u2019s election commission has published details of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of political donations, exposing how &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62588,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62587\/revisions\/62588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}