These 6 Congress MLAs had cross-voted during the recent Rajya Sabha polls in Himachal Pradesh resulting in the loss of the Congress party candidate Abhishek Manu Singhvi and the win of BJP’s Harsh Mahajan.
The Quint's Poonam Agarwal had claimed that the alpha-numeric codes would enable Centre to link electoral bond donors with political parties, but SBI's response has proven it false now.
It is important to note here that Congress stands as the third-biggest beneficiary of the electoral bonds after BJP and TMC as per the data revealed by the Election Commission of India. Congress has been ruling three states in the country, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, and Telangana at present.