The candidates in the poll fray for Chandigarh parliamentary seat furnished their poll related expenditure details to Chandigarh Election Department on Wednesday.
According to the details submitted to the Election Department, the Congress candidate and sitting MP Pawan Kumar Bansal topped the list spending Rs26,65,000.Aam Aadmi Party candidate Gul Panag’s poll expenditure is Rs18,86,232 followed by BJP’s candidate Kirron Kher expenditure of Rs18,64,699. Earlier, the political parties had submitted to EC that approx Rs4 lakh was spent by BJP on the rally of prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in Chandigarh while AAP had spent around Rs50,000 on party’s chief Arvind Kejriwal’s roadshow.
Meanwhile, Bahujan Samaj Party’s candidate Jannat Jahan failed to submit her expenditure details on Wednesday despite the directions of the Election Department. The BSP had earlier submitted that the party supremo Mayawtai’s rally cost around Rs4.11 lakh.The ceiling of expenditure for each candidate has been fixed at Rs54 lakh in Chandigarh.The candidates had to pay Rs25,000 as security which has been included in the poll expenditure.