Vehicles Account for Lion's Share of MLAs' Election Expenses

The focus of the legislators during their election campaign seemed to be more on roadshows and rallies as the expenditure on campaign through print and electronic media stood merely at five per cent.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh during a road show (File photo: PTI)

New Delhi: The Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) of 11 states spent more than 50% of the election expenditure limit, of which 26% was utilised just for campaigning on vehicles, a report said.

An Association for Democratic Reforms analysis on the election expenditure and vote share of 4,087 out of 4,120 sitting MLAs found that the legislators of Kerala, Tripura, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Mizoram, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Assam and Bihar have spent more than half of their electoral expense.