Santosh Gangwar, Dharmendra Kashyap, Sanghamitra Maurya
– Photo: Amar Ujala
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Political parties and supporters have also been very kind to those who fought for the Lok Sabha elections in the land of Ruhilkhand, which is very fertile for politics. Previous figures show that the candidates of BJP, SP and Congress on Bareilly, Amla and Badaun Lok Sabha seats are not worried about election expenses. They get more money in donations than their election expenses. In such a situation, even in the Lok Sabha elections with a maximum expenditure limit of Rs 70 lakh, most of the candidates did not have to spend even a single penny.
Santosh won the election with the money donated
Supporters donated generously to former Union Minister Santosh Gangwar, who was a candidate from Bareilly Lok Sabha seat in 2019. 161 people had donated Rs 43.57 lakh to him to contest the elections through check and other means. He was successful in registering victory by spending only Rs 37.55 lakh in the election campaign. It is believed that due to huge donations, no support amount would have been given to him by the party. Despite this, to become MP for the eighth time, he did not need to withdraw even a single rupee from his personal property.
In the same election, SP candidate Bhagwat Saran Gangwar, who was Santosh’s rival, was also taken to task by the party and its supporters. The party gave him Rs 10 lakh to start the election campaign and he also received a donation of Rs 11.03 lakh from the public. Former MP Praveen Singh Airan, who was the Congress candidate in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, had spent the maximum of Rs 60.19 lakh. In this, he received Rs 50 lakh from the party and collected Rs 10 lakh as loan. Despite this he lost the election.
