Chennai: In the election of April assembly packaged action in the midst of a pandemic, DMK, who troubled the victory after 10 years of hiatus, had spent RS 114.14 Crore in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, said a report submitted by the Election Commission.
AIADMK led by o Panneerselvam and Edappadi K Palaniswami has spent Rs 57.33 Crore, while Allies Iershile, PMK shows a spending sheet for Rs 30 Lakh.
The Commission has released a statement of expenditure submitted by the parties after the election in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala and Puducherry earlier this year.
After announcing the cost of Rs 154.28 Crore, all Indian Trinamool Congress topped the party list with high expenses, followed by DMK.
Congress has spent Rs 84.93 Crore for polls.
It is still unclear whether BJP handed over his statement because the Commission has not released a report until Saturday.
DMK stated that he paid Rs 5 Crore to Indian Pac Consulting Private Limited towards the propaganda consultation fee.
The report submitted by Secretary General S Durai Murugan said he had received Rs 134 Crore from all sources, cash, checks and election bonds from the date of the election announcement to the date of completion.
It has spent Rs 48.75 Crore in candidates in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry – Payment of RS 25 Lakh is made for 188 candidates, which are contested in Tamil Nadu and Rs 15 Lakh to 13 candidates in Puducherry, in addition to Rs 5.72 Crore on Publishing criminal antecedents of candidates.
With his chief M Stalin conducted a quail campaign on a special plane, DMK had spent RS 2.25 Crore towards air travel costs on various dates, and RS 16 Lakh on the cost of traveling on other leaders, who took taxis and other cars.
The party conducts an aggressive campaign to return by spending RS 39.78 Crore on advertising in print and electronic media, sending bulk sms, websites, and TV channels for propaganda, the report said.
This raises RS 12.34 crore expenses for publicity materials, including posters, banners, badges, stickers, arches, cutouts, stockpiling and party flags.
In his report submitted to the Commission on July 7, the leadership of AIDMK said it had the opening balance of Rs 266.14 Crore and the party received RS 14.46 Crore from all sources from the date of the election announcement, including district and local units in the state, both in cash and checks .
The party has spent Rs 56.65 Crore to advertisements, calls and social media propaganda.
Interestingly, the party hired a helicopter only once for EPS during his campaign on April 1 and RS 13.23 Lakh payment was made against it.