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Snapshot of the day

May 2, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

We knew from the electoral bonds data and other publicly available information that the Bharatiya Janata Party gets a lot of money and is India’s wealthiest party but exactly how rich is it? M. Rajshekhar looked at the BJP’s declared income and at the amount it has plausibly spent on elections and on erecting hundreds of new offices