Who Is Giving to the

Aam Aadmi Party?

On January 8, when one Vandana Singh of Ghaziabad gave `1 to the Aam Aadmi Party, it marked a new beginning of sorts: a political party collecting funds from the public, and claiming to do so transparently by disclosing all contributions and uploading their details on its website. Those accounts show that in 294 days since, 61,303 people and entities have contributed `17.1 crore to AAP. John Samuel Raja D and Shambhavi Anand dissect the numbers

Where are the Donations Coming From?

TOP 5 COUNTRIES
About 29% of its contributions have come from 78 countries outside India, led by the US. It also includes neighbours like China (`9,500), Sri Lanka (`5,500) and Bangladesh (`20,000), but not Pakistan

Who are the Big Contributors?

The top 10
contributors account for 17% of funds received. Eminent lawyer

10.5
US

70.8
INDIA

6.3
HONG KONG

2.9
UAE

Shanti Bhushan,
whose son, Prashant, is a member of AAPs national executive, accounts for 5.8%, contributing `1 crore. He is followed by Amit Agarwal, a Hong Kong-based banker. And the names beyond them suggest several other distinguished citizens have made sizeable contributions Amount (` lakh )

2.1
SINGAPORE
FIGURES IN PER CENT

TOP 5 STATES
AAP has received money from every state and union territory. Interestingly, only 20.5% of its funds have come from Delhi, its first electoral contest

Shanti Bhushan Amit Agarwal Hero Cycles Vikrant Jindal Pranav Thakur Atul M Ramaiya

100 50.3 30 21 20 20 10 10 10 10 10 8 8 8 6.9 6.7 6 6 5 5 5 5

Delhi 20.5 Maharashtra 11.2 Uttar Pradesh 9.2 Karnataka 6.8 Haryana 6.0
FIGURES IN PER CENT

Vineet Malik Sanjay Satpal *

TOP 10 DISTRICTS
Of 646 districts in India, AAP seems to have
received donations from 590. NCR, which is the sum of several districts and where AAP has its roots, accounts for 32.3%. Two unlikely names in the top 10 are Sambalpur in Odisha, on the strength of some large contributions, and Rangareddy in Andhra

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NCR * 32.3 Mumbai 6.8 Bangalore 6.1 Pune 2.4 Hyderabad 1.4 Chennai 1.3 Thane Sambalpur Rangareddy Ahmedabad

0.9 0.5 0.4 0.4

* Taken as a district for this study as AAPs activities have been concentrated here FIGURES IN PER CENT

Rohinton F Nariman Ram Jethmalani

*SANJAY SATPAL & ASSOCIATES

In What Size are the Contributions?

About % of the donors contributed below `500, amounting to `82 lakh. At the other end, 61 individuals or entities gave more than `1 lakh, amounting to `4.1 cr
FIGURES TILL OCTOBER 29 Source for Raw Data: Aam Aadmi Party

No. of Contributions Less than `500 `501-1,000 `1,001-2,000 `2,001-5,000 `5,001-10,000 `10,001 to 1 lakh Above `1 lakh

Share (%)

33,298 11,727 5,487 6,354 2,672 1,711 61

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4.8 6.5 5.1 15.1 13.7 30.7 24.0

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