A whopping amount was spent in 2019 polls and the scale of expenditure should "scare us," a city-based think-tank Monday claimed.
The Centre for Media Studies after releasing a report on 2019 polls expenditure, also claimed the recently-concluded election has signalled that the more the expenditure, the "more vicious and ugly" the campaigns become.
At a function held at the IIC here, a panel discussion was also held in which former chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi also participated.
The CMS, in its report has claimed that about Rs 60,000 crore were spent in the 2019 elections, and the formal expenditure component, i.e. the amount spent by the Election Commission is nearly 15-20 per cent of that."
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