https://thewire.in/government/delhi-airport-gmr-group-terminal-one-bjp Firm Managing Delhi Airport Among Top Donors to an Electoral Trust Which Gave Lion's Share to BJP 28/Jun/2024 The Wire Staff According to an April 2024 Reuters report which reviewed public records, this March, Prudent had raised $272 million since its creation in 2013, “funnelling roughly 75% of that to prime minister Narendra Modi’s ruling BJP”... Four companies whose transactions were identified by Reuters were ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel, Bharti Airtel, Essar and GMR. It underlined that these companies “have not given money to the party directly and do not appear on its donors’ list.”..
Prudent features as BJP’s biggest donor according to Association for Democratic Reforms’ (ADR’s) year-by-year analysis of electoral trusts. In ADR’s report on electoral trust for 2018-19, Prudent is mentioned as the only trust which declared to the Election Commission its contributions since the financial year 2013-14. That report said that GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited made the largest contribution – Rs 25 crore – out of all corporate and individual donors to electoral trusts in 2018-19.