New Delhi: IndiGo promoter Rahul Bhatia, in his individual capacity, and companies of his InterGlobe Group have donated Rs 56 crore to four political parties while SpiceJet gave Rs 70 lakh to AAP.
BJP got the lion’s share of Rs 31 crore from InterGlobe Real Estate Venture (Rs 20 crore) and InterGlobe Air Transport Ltd (Rs 11 crore). The second biggest recipient, surprisingly, was TMC which got Rs 16.2 crore from Bhatia. Congress got Rs 5 crore from InterGlobe Aviation Ltd while Bhatia paid Rs 3.8 crore to its ally NCP.
While InterGlobe is flush with funds as IndiGo has been only consistently profitable airline, SpiceJet has been trying to raise funds for the past few years during which it has routinely delayed payment of salary and statutory dues like PF to employees, apart from delaying depositing TDS. Many IndiGo employees did not find the contributions to political parties surprising but many in SpiceJet were surprised.
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