Here’s a good — well-planned, revealing, and meticulously documented and verified — investigation by Newslaundry and The News Minute into the patterns of political funding in India:

‘Part 1: Behind the BJP’s rise and rise, bonds, trusts and raids on corporates’:

‘Corporate funding of politics is a controversial subject. More so in India, where most of the money in recent years has gone to only one party. But there is a pattern to this money flow.’

newslaundry.com/2024/02/20/beh…

‘Part 2: 30 firms who donated Rs 335 cr to BJP were also stung by I-T, ED’:

newslaundry.com/2024/02/21/par…

‘Part 3: How BJP became the biggest beneficiary of UPA’s Electoral Trust scheme’:

newslaundry.com/2024/02/23/par…