TMC spent highest for Goa polls at ₹47.54 crore, BJP’s expenditure over ₹17 crore

The details of the election expenditure were submitted by the respective political parties to the Election Commission recently

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 spending a whopping ₹47.54 crore.

The BJP, which retained power in Goa with Chief Minister Pramod Sawant at the helm, spent over ₹17.75 crore towards election expenditure in the State.

The Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP spent nearly ₹3.5 crore in Goa, where it tried its luck for the second consecutive Assembly elections.

The details of the election expenditure were submitted by the respective political parties to the Election Commission recently.

The Congress, which was hoping to dislodge the BJP from power in Goa, spent approximately ₹12 crore on the Goa elections.

The Nationalist Congress Party gave ₹25 lakh each to the 11 candidates it had fielded for the elections, besides spending on the campaign from the party’s central fund.

The Shiv Sena, which fielded 10 candidates in the Goa elections, spent nearly ₹92 lakh towards poll expenditure. Eyeing expansion, the Trinamool Congress had launched an election blitzkrieg in Goa with poll strategist Prashant Kishor playing a key role in trying to get the party a toehold in the State.