AAP donations take major hit as internal strife widens

The AAP has got only about Rs 74,000 in donation in the last five days according to a report in a prominent newspaper, with barely Rs 13,199 being contributed by eight donors on Monday. This is in sharp contrast to online contributions after the Delhi election results when the party received as much as Rs 36 lakh a day.

The national executive meeting after which reports of differences between AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and members Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav emerged took place on February 26. After that, donations have taken a severe hit.

AAP hit the Rs 1 lakh mark ten times between February 10 and February 26 but managed to collect above a lakh of rupees only thrice after that. 

Usually, collections tend to rise around polls, peaking just before elections and then witnessing a slump. For instance, AAP collected Rs 1.22 crore and Rs 1.04 crore on January 31 and February 4 in the countdown to the polls. It has not hit the Rs 1 crore mark since then.