Chhattisgarh Lok Sabha Election 2024: The first phase of voting has been completed for Bastar Lok Sabha seat of Chhattisgarh. Before voting, the candidates campaigned vigorously. The figures of the amount spent on election campaign have come out.
Congress and BJP candidates spent the most on election campaign. According to the documents submitted to the Election Commission, the BJP candidate spent Rs 65 lakh on campaigning. The Congress candidate at second position has shown a limit of expenditure of Rs 55 lakh.
Let us tell you that for the Lok Sabha elections 2024, the Election Commission had fixed the maximum limit of expenditure at Rs 95 lakh. The candidate could have been declared ineligible if the expenditure was more than Rs 95 lakh. Political parties also did not disappoint the candidates.
Huge amount of money was provided to the candidates. Rs 35 lakh was transferred to the candidate twice by BJP. But Congress did not release funds for the candidate. Whereas the CPI candidate got Rs 1.5 lakh in cash to spend.
How much was spent on election campaign in Bastar?
The candidate deposited the cash in the account. The expenditure limit of candidates in Lok Sabha elections has been increasing from time to time. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, a candidate was allowed to spend up to Rs 70 lakh and in the Assembly elections, a candidate was allowed to spend up to Rs 28 lakh. This time the expenditure limit in the Lok Sabha elections was increased to Rs 95 lakh. Lok Sabha Elections To win, the candidates spent the maximum amount on vehicle fare and petrol and diesel.
Investigation revealed that 60 percent of the total expenditure was spent on vehicle fare, diesel and meeting. In this too, the maximum expenditure has been on vehicle hire. Apart from this, the candidates have spent money on helicopter, rally, flag banner and other items.
Information about the expenditure of star campaigners who came to campaign on Bastar Lok Sabha seat has also come to the fore. BJP’s PM Modi and Congress’s Rahul Gandhi also held meetings. The candidate had shared the stage with him, hence all the expenses were credited to his account.
According to the information received from the affidavit, Rs 31 lakh 13 thousand were spent on PM Modi’s meeting in small Amabal village of Narayanpur. At the same time, the total expenditure of Rahul Gandhi’s meeting in Bastar was Rs 14 lakh 51 thousand. The total expenditure of BJP’s star campaigner and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh’s meeting in Dantewada was Rs 4 lakh 40 thousand. A total of Rs 2 lakh 99 thousand was spent on the meeting of Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar in Dantewada itself.
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