“Just as leaders of his party were being pressured by probe agencies, like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED), corporates were also threatened into making large donations to the BJP, the former chief minister of Maharashtra alleged. Top companies got contracts in different parts of the country and were forced to donate to the BJP in the form of electoral bonds,” he claimed.
In its landmark verdict on February 15, the Supreme Court scrapped the Centre’s electoral bonds scheme that allowed anonymous political funding, calling it “unconstitutional”.
The apex court on Friday said the State Bank of India (SBI) must provide the number unique to each electoral bond that would disclose the link between the buyer and the recipient political party.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government under him was toppled because the BJP couldn’t loot Maharashtra when he was at the helm, Thackeray claimed.
