Jindal Group companies bought electoral bonds worth ₹195.5 crore

The Jindal Group was founded by OP Jindal in 1952 by establishing an indigenous single-unit steel plant in Hisar, Haryana. Today, the conglomerate's businesses include mining, power, industrial gases, seaport facilities and steel manufacturing. As of September 2022, the Group's valuation stood at $18 billion (₹18,000 crore). 

Other donors in the list include listed entities like Vedanta, Jindal Steel and Power, IFB Agro, Torrent Power, Dr Reddy's Laboratories Aurobindo Pharma, Natco Pharma.

On February 15, a five-judge Constitution bench scrapped the Centre’s electoral bonds scheme that allowed anonymous political funding, calling it "unconstitutional" and ordered disclosure by the EC of donors, the amount donated by them and the recipients.