The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Tehri, Mala Rajya laxmi Shah showed Rs53,87,602 as election campaign expenditure, while Congress candidate from Tehri, Saket Bahuguna showed it at Rs49,93,749. The candidates of both the national parties have spent far more than the candidates of regional parties.
Dehradun District Chief Treasury Officer Jagat Singh Chauhan said that the election campaign expenditure shown by the candidates of political parties and independent candidates was
tallied with the estimate by the election expenditure officials. As per Election Commission of India’s guidelines, the party candidates had submitted their expenditure on April 28, May 2, 5
and 9.
Aam Aadmi Party candidate Anoop Nautiyal showed his election campaign expenditure at Rs21,27,662 while CPI-M's Shiv Prasad Devli showed it at Rs6,06,161; BSP candidate Shishpal Singh showed it at Rs12,10,733; Rashtriya Uttarakhand Party candidate Navneet Singh Gusain showed it at Rs1,44,140; Peace Party candidate Haji Mohammad Yusuf showed it at Rs1,07,800; Naya Daur Party candidate Satendra Sharma showed it at Rs76,700 and independent candidates Sohanpal Singh showed
it at Rs1,04,715, Raju Maurya showed it at Rs62,270; Brahamdev Jha showed it at Rs1,68,902; Prem Singh Yadav showed it as Rs88,242 and Gaurav Pundir showed it as Rs38,528 with their records matching with those of the ECI observers.
However, Bharatiya Mool Niwas Samaj Party candidate Johri lal Suman and independent candidate Jaiprakash Upadhyay did not show their election campaign
expenditure on Friday.