While corporate donations to political parties jumped three times after 2012, as compared to the period between 2004 and 2012, as much as 70% of it went to the Bharatiya Janata Party and 20% to the Indian National Congress, confirming the widely held perception that BJP is the blue-eyed party of corporate bodies.

A report compiled by the Association of Democratic Reform (ADR) released on Thursday reveals that corporate bodies donated just about ₹ 378 crore to political parties in the eight years between 2004 and 2012. This period saw two general elections for the Lok Sabha and as many as 52 Assembly elections.