Top donors to Indian PM Modi's party include Vedanta, Reliance-affiliate, under opaque scheme
March 21, 2024 at 10:48 am EDT
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Top donors to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party since 2019 under a now-scrapped opaque funding scheme include Megha Engineering, Reliance affiliate Qwik Supply Chain and Vedanta, data made public on Thursday shows.
The data, made public by the Election Commission of India under orders of the country's Supreme Court, also shows that top donors to India's main opposition Congress party included Megha Engineering and its affiliates, Vedanta and MKJ Enterprises.
India will hold national elections starting from April 19 in which Modi will seek a third term.
(Reporting by New Delhi and Bengaluru bureaux; Writing by Shivam Patel; Editing by Susan Fenton)
Reliance, Inc. is a diversified metal solutions provider and has a metals service center company in North America. The Company provides value-added metals processing services and distributes a full line of over 100,000 metal products, including alloy, aluminum, brass, copper, carbon steel, stainless steel, titanium, specialty carbon and alloy steel plate and round bar and specialty steel products. It serves various industries, such as general manufacturing, non-residential construction (including infrastructure), transportation (rail, truck trailer and shipbuilding), aerospace (commercial, military, defense, and space, and heavy industry, energy (oil and natural gas). It also services the auto industry, primarily through its toll processing operation. It has a network of approximately 315 locations in 40 states and in 12 foreign countries, including Belgium, Canada, China, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.