Following the direction of Election Commission of India, the candidates contesting election are submitting their election expenditure before the returning offices concerned. Candidate’s election expenditure’s report received from the Dehradun election office by February 8 revealed that some candidates were spending their election expenditure cautiously while others had crossed Rs 10 lakh. Dehradun DM and election officer Ravinath Raman said that in Chakrata constituency, BJP candidate Madhu Chauhan has spent Rs 9.15 lakh on election expenditure while Rs 8.19 lakh by congress candidate Pritam Singh. In Vikasnagar, Munna Singh Chauhan of BJP spent worth Rs 7.89 lakh while Rs 5.69 lakh by Navprabhat of Congress and Rs 3.41 lakh by Girish Kumar of BSP.
In Sahaspur, lakshmi Aggarwal and Ayendra Sharma, both are independent candidates have spent Rs 13.03 lakh and Rs 11.78 lakh respectively while the Congress candidate Kishore Upadhyay has spent Rs 12.90 lakh and Sahdev Singh Pundir of BJP Rs 7.97 lakh. CPI (M) candidate Shiv Prasad Devli spent Rs 4.01 lakh while Shastri Pavan Maletha of UKD spent Rs 3.91 lakh and Manju Singh of Rashtriya lok Dal spent Rs 3.54 lakh in the same constituency.
In Dharampur constituency, Vinod Chamoli of BJP spent Rs 9.06 lakh while Dinesh Aggarwal of Congress spent Rs 8.26 lakh. In Raipur, independent candidate Mahendra Singh Negi spent Rs 17.80 lakh while Rs 12.23 lakh by Prabhu lal Bahuguna of Congress, Rs 6.09 lakh by Rajni Rawat, Rs 5.14 lakh by Umesh Sharma of BJP.
In Rajpur Road, Khajan Das of BJP spent Rs 6.02 lakh while Rs 3.46 lakh by Rajkumar of Congress.
In Dehradun Cantt, Kunwar Japendra Singh of lok Dal spent Rs 8.51 lakh while Rs 8.49 lakh by independent candidate Anup Nautiyal, Rs 7.66 lakh by Harbans Kapoor of BJP and Rs 7.13 lakh by Surya Kant Dhasmana of Congress. In Mussoorie, Ganesh Joshi of BJP spent Rs 13.81 lakh while Rs 7.18 lakh by Godavari Thapli of Congress.
In Doiwala, Trivendra Singh Rawat of BJP spent Rs 9.45 lakhe Rs 5.02 lakh by Rajpal Khairola of Congress.