NEW DELHI — Donations declared by the Congress party have fallen by about 75 per cent in a year, from around Rs 517.4 crore in 2024-25 to Rs 130.7 crore in 2025-26, according to the party's contribution report for 2025-26 submitted to the Election Commission of India.

Source: Times of India via ScoopFeeds

The Times of India, which first reported the figures on November 7, described the Rs 130.7 crore total as the party's lowest in three years. The reported total is also about 53 per cent lower than what the Congress received in 2023-24, the report said.

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Rs 130.7 croreCongress donations, 2025-26
Rs 517.4 croreCongress donations, 2024-25
~75%Fall in one year
Rs 25 crorePrudent Electoral Trust, 2025-26

One trust, a much smaller share

The Prudent Electoral Trust remained the party's single largest channel but gave far less: Rs 25 crore in 2025-26, against Rs 216 crore in 2024-25. Its share of the Congress total fell from 41.8 per cent in 2024-25 to about 19 per cent in 2025-26, the report said.

Donations of Rs 1 crore or more came from only nine individuals and companies and totalled about Rs 43 crore, while the report recorded 1,321 individual contributions of Rs 5 lakh or less — a picture of funding concentrated in a small number of large donors, according to the report.

Why the comparison is steep

The 2024-25 year covered a Lok Sabha election period, when donations to major parties usually rise, which makes the year-on-year fall look sharper. The 2025-26 period itself included the Bihar assembly elections and, in April 2026, elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry. The party's full audit report for 2025-26, which will show other income such as coupons, is still awaited, the report noted; in 2024-25 the Congress had received over Rs 350 crore through coupons.