India’s top beef exporter made its highest-ever donation to the BJP
· Scroll
In 2014, Narendra Modi accused the United Progressive Alliance government of promoting a “pink revolution” and encouraging the slaughter of cattle. “Across the countryside, our animals are getting slaughtered,” he had said. “Across India too, there are massive slaughterhouses in operation.”
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The beef industry has been an old target of Hindutva campaigns, even though Indian firms export buffalo and not cow meat.
And yet, the industry has not only survived but grown under the Modi government. At the centre of this quiet success is the 160-year-old Allana group, India’s top exporter of buffalo meat.
In 2024-’25, the group, led by Irfan Allana, donated an unprecedented Rs 30 crore to the Bharatiya Janata Party, according to disclosures filed with the Election Commission of India.
This coincided with India’s beef exports crossing $4 billion in 2025 – a level breached for the first time since 2018, according to data available with the Ministry of Commerce.
Parallely, Allanasons Private Limited, the group’s flagship export firm, also recorded a revenue of more than Rs 10,000 crore for the first time since 2018.
Why would a company whose core business is demonised by the ruling party fund that very party?
In response to Scroll’s questions about the reason for the unprecedented donations, Fauzan Alavi, Executive Director of the Allana Group, said that “positive transformations”...