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At Scroll, we are committed to uncovering the opaque world of political funding in India. Our latest investigation reveals how India’s top beef exporter, despite the BJP’s public stance against its core business, made its highest-ever donation to the party in 2024-’25, amid expanding trade ties with Islamic countries facilitated by government policy.​

This builds on our track record. In November, we showed how the Tata Group became the BJP’s largest corporate donor just weeks after the Modi cabinet approved its semiconductor units. Earlier, we reported that a Tamil Nadu firm donated Rs 125 crore to the BJP shortly after receiving approval for its own semiconductor project.

These are not isolated stories. They are part of a larger effort to scrutinise how money flows to power.

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