AGARTALA, June 5 (TIWN): After Lok Sabha Election, the country left bankrupted, foreign trade relations broken which were initiated by former PM Indira Gandhi and GDP at lowest. So far Tripura BJP also could not celebrate the victory rally but after 13 days of passage of the election result, BJP’s house to house donation collection, threat, money extortions are going on without any pause, showing the thumb to Chief Minister Biplab Deb’s warning by miscreants. On yesterday, attack at Doctor’s house has shocked the state and everyday there are reports of money extortion, threat are hitting the newspaper headlines. The demands of amounts are various and huge. It’s crossing lakhs also. At centre, GDP rate is at down and it has come in report that BJP has consumed 45% of the total election expenditure of the country and this has been the costliest election in India at Rs. 60,000 crores. State Tripura is suffocating under BJP’s extortion threats.A report published today in India has claimed that nearly Rs. 27000 crores have been spent in 2019 Lok Sabha Election. This may be leading economic crisis not only for the country, but also for the party BJP.

This is however country’s “most expensive election ever, anywhere” with around 60000 crores whereas BJP itself has used 45% of the total expenditure. This time's expenditure is a growth of 6-7 times from the 1998 Lok Sabha polls when around Rs 9,000 crore was spent, the study 'Poll Expenditure: The 2019 Elections' by a private think tank the Centre for Media Studies (CMS) claimed.

Spending by political parties and candidates to woo 900 million voters in the just concluded polls cost them nearly Rs 60,000 crore ($8.7 billion), more than double of 2014 polls, according to the New Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies. The report, based on field studies, analysis and estimation, found that they spent Rs 700 per voter or nearly Rs 100 crore in each parliamentary constituency.

With some constituencies comprising as many as three million voters, equivalent to the population of Jamaica, candidates had to spend more for publicity and logistics and in some cases distributed cash for votes, according to the report. India’s poll panel prescribes a seven million-rupee ceiling on spending by a candidate, said Business Standard.

About $6.5 billion was spent ‘during the US presidential and congressional races in 2016, according to OpenSecrets.org, which tracks money in American politics.

At this rate, expenditure in the next 2024 general election could cross Rs 1 trillion , said N. Bhaskara Rao, chairman of CMS.

“Mother of all corruption lies in the spiraling election expenditure,’’ said Rao. “If we are not able to address this, we can’t check corruption in India.’’

“The BJP spent about 20% in 1998 against about 45% in 2019 out of the total poll expenditure estimate, taking it from 9,000 crore in 1998 to ₹55,000 crore. In 2009, the Congress’s share was 40% of total expenditure, against 15 to 20% in 2019,” the report stated.

India’s GDP grow has fallen below China.