Party Expenditure

Simultaneous elections in 2024 could bring down the spending on polls by 20 to 30 per cent, depending on how effective the Election Commission is and how cooperative political parties are.

The BJP, which is in power in Gujarat for over 25 years, had spent over Rs 209 crore in the 2022 state assembly polls, according to details submitted by the party to the Election Commission.

The Election Commission on Monday came up with an online portal to allow registered political parties to file their financial statements, including contribution reports and poll expenditure accounts.

The Congress spent over Rs 130 crore for contesting the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly polls held late last year, according to an expenditure report submitted by the party to the Election Commission.

The Enforcement Directorate has accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of "using" a part of the Rs 100 crore kickbacks allegedly received from the 'south group' liquor lobby to meet its expenditure for the Goa Assembly poll campaign in 2022.

The Congress on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Aam Aadmi Party over the alleged expenditure of Rs 45 crore on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's official residence.

With elections coming up later this year, a lot is going to change in Madhya Pradesh BJP, even the party office in Bhopal. After 32 years, the BJP is constructing a state-of-the art party office with an expenditure of near Rs 100 crore.

The status of a star campaigner is a given to crowd-pullers of parties whose expenditures on the campaign trail do not add up to the cap set by the Election Commission for candidates.

The Goa assembly elections were keenly fought with the Trinamool Congress and Aam Aadmi Party throwing their hats in the ring but when it came to poll expenditure, it was the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress that loosened its purse strings spen

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is delaying the retirement age of its government employees as the draconian one-child policy bears its long-term effects in the form of an ageing population accompanied by increased state expenditure on pensions

The Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party has shown expenditures of over Rs 17 crore in its audited annual report submitted to the Election Commission.

Batting for holding of simultaneous elections in the country, a parliamentary committee on Tuesday said this will reduce the burden on the exchequer, expenditure of political parties and also ensure that human resources are optimally utilised.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday questioned the Centre on its expenditure out of "disaster funds" and urged the union government to distribute "that money" among all the states irrespective of the political party in power.

The BJP on Thursday accused the Aam Aadmi Party of "sponsoring" anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests, including the one at Delhi's Shaheen Bagh and running a "proxy campaign" through the protesters, as it urged the Election Commission to include expenses incurred on these demonstrations in the expenditure of AAP candidates.

Although Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath had asked party workers to avoid wasteful expenditure on his 73rd birthday, the state woke up to full-page newspaper advertisements listing out his achievements on Monday anyway. Apart from the usual words of felicitation, it narrated an incident from over four decades ago that reportedly served to ...

Simultaneous elections in 2024 could bring down the spending on polls by 20 to 30 per cent, depending on how effective the Election Commission is and how cooperative political parties are.

The BJP, which is in power in Gujarat for over 25 years, had spent over Rs 209 crore in the 2022 state assembly polls, according to details submitted by the party to the Election Commission.

The Election Commission on Monday came up with an online portal to allow registered political parties to file their financial statements, including contribution reports and poll expenditure accounts.

The Congress spent over Rs 130 crore for contesting the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly polls held late last year, according to an expenditure report submitted by the party to the Election Commission.

The Enforcement Directorate has accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of "using" a part of the Rs 100 crore kickbacks allegedly received from the 'south group' liquor lobby to meet its expenditure for the Goa Assembly poll campaign in 2022.

The Congress on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Aam Aadmi Party over the alleged expenditure of Rs 45 crore on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's official residence.

With elections coming up later this year, a lot is going to change in Madhya Pradesh BJP, even the party office in Bhopal. After 32 years, the BJP is constructing a state-of-the art party office with an expenditure of near Rs 100 crore.

The status of a star campaigner is a given to crowd-pullers of parties whose expenditures on the campaign trail do not add up to the cap set by the Election Commission for candidates.

The Goa assembly elections were keenly fought with the Trinamool Congress and Aam Aadmi Party throwing their hats in the ring but when it came to poll expenditure, it was the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress that loosened its purse strings spen

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is delaying the retirement age of its government employees as the draconian one-child policy bears its long-term effects in the form of an ageing population accompanied by increased state expenditure on pensions

The Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party has shown expenditures of over Rs 17 crore in its audited annual report submitted to the Election Commission.

Batting for holding of simultaneous elections in the country, a parliamentary committee on Tuesday said this will reduce the burden on the exchequer, expenditure of political parties and also ensure that human resources are optimally utilised.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday questioned the Centre on its expenditure out of "disaster funds" and urged the union government to distribute "that money" among all the states irrespective of the political party in power.

The BJP on Thursday accused the Aam Aadmi Party of "sponsoring" anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests, including the one at Delhi's Shaheen Bagh and running a "proxy campaign" through the protesters, as it urged the Election Commission to include expenses incurred on these demonstrations in the expenditure of AAP candidates.

Although Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath had asked party workers to avoid wasteful expenditure on his 73rd birthday, the state woke up to full-page newspaper advertisements listing out his achievements on Monday anyway. Apart from the usual words of felicitation, it narrated an incident from over four decades ago that reportedly served to ...