The Congress party registered a sharp seventy-five percent drop in high-value donations during the 2025-26 financial year.
The party collected one hundred thirty point six nine crore rupees in contributions exceeding twenty thousand rupees.
An official analysis of the latest Election Commission filings revealed this dramatic financial contraction for the party.
The party had secured five hundred seventeen point three nine crore rupees during the previous fiscal year.
This plunge represents the steepest annual decline in political donations for the Congress party in a decade.
A comparable drop occurred in 2015-16 when contributions fell by eighty-six percent to fourteen crore rupees.
The current fall ends a two-year growth phase where collections expanded significantly ahead of national general elections.
Congress gathered two hundred eighty-one point four eight crore rupees during the 2023-24 financial cycle.
Meanwhile, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party secured over six thousand crore rupees in high-value donations during 2024-25.
The ruling party repeatedly outperformed the main opposition group in contribution totals across twelve consecutive fiscal years.
The Election Commission has not yet published the Bharatiya Janata Party contribution details for 2025-26.
A sharp reduction in corporate funding through the Prudent Electoral Trust drove the overall drop in receipts.
Contributions from this primary trust sank eighty-eight percent down to twenty-five crore rupees this past year.
Prudent Electoral Trust remained the sole corporate intermediary registered in the latest Congress financial disclosure report.
Other major individual contributors included Star Cement alongside business leaders Sajjan Bhajanka and Prem Kumar Bhajanka.
Despite the heavy drop, the latest collection total exceeded amounts gathered during several recent fiscal periods.
The party generated lower figures in 2020-21, 2021-22, and 2022-23 before the recent election surge.
These specific contribution totals exclude revenues earned through the now-defunct electoral bond subscription system.
The annual contribution report omits small cash donations, mandatory membership fees, coupon sales, and bank interest.
The upcoming audited account filing will fully detail the overall financial standing of the main opposition party.
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