New Delhi. On one hand, Congress is losing election after election. At the same time, the donations it receives are also decreasing. Congress has told the Election Commission that in the year 2025-26 it received only Rs 130.70 crore as donations. Whereas, in 2024-25, Congress had received Rs 517.40 crore as donations. That means there has been a decline of about 75 percent in Congress's donations in one year. Congress received 19 percent of its donations from Prudent Electoral Trust. Whereas, the trust's contribution to the donations received by Congress in 2024-25 was 41.8 percent.
Congress had received more than Rs 350 crore from issuing and selling coupons in 2024-25. The special thing is that the amount Congress received as donations in 2023-24 was 53 percent more than the amount received in 2025-26. In 2024-25, Congress probably got more donations because there were Lok Sabha elections then, but since then Congress has lost the important assembly elections of Bihar, Maharashtra, Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Delhi. According to the information given by Congress to the Election Commission, Star Cement Limited gave it Rs 5 crore. Whereas, Rs 4 crore was received from Sajjan Bhajanka, Rs 3 crore from Afnan Construction and Rs 2 crore from Prem Kumar Bhajanka. Donations of Rs 1 crore or more were received from only 9 people and companies.
Talking about the year 2025, Congress had received most of the donations mainly from corporates. In which Prudent Trust had the highest share. Prudent Trust had given Rs 216 crore to Congress in 2024-25. At the same time, in 2025-26, the Trust donated only Rs 25 crore to Congress. Before the last Lok Sabha elections, the Income Tax Department had frozen the bank accounts of Congress. After this, Rahul Gandhi and all the Congress leaders had said that by taking action on the party's funds, the financial situation was put in crisis and its ability to contest elections was being affected.