Rahul Gandhi contested the Lok Sabha elections 2024 from Rae Bareli and Wayanad seats and won both. He later chose to keep Rae Bareli, the Congress’ bastion in Uttar Pradesh.
Rahul Gandhi contested the Lok Sabha elections 2024 from Rae Bareli and Wayanad seats and won both. (Credit: PTI)
New Delhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi who contested the Lok Sabha elections 2024 from Wayanad and Rae Bareli was given Rs 70 lakh for each seat by the Congress for the electoral fight, the Grand Old Party has revealed in its submission to the Election Commission (EC).
The only Congress candidate to receive a higher amount from the party fund was Vikramaditya Singh, who was allocated Rs 87 lakh. However, he lost the Mandi seat in Himachal Pradesh to BJP candidate and actor Kangana Ranaut.
Other leaders who received Rs 70 lakh from the party fund included Kishori Lal Sharma, who defeated BJP’s sitting MP Smriti Irani, K. C. Venugopal (Alappuzha in Kerala), and Manickam Tagore (Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu).
Congress candidates Radhakrishna from Gulbarga in Karnataka and Vijay Inder Singla from Anandpur Sahib in Punjab also received Rs 70 lakh each.
Senior Congress leaders Anand Sharma and Digvijay Singh, who both lost their elections, were allocated Rs 46 lakh and Rs 50 lakh, respectively. Gandhi won from both Rae Bareli and Wayanad but chose to retain the Uttar Pradesh seat.
The Congress party won 99 seats in the parliamentary elections, with Gandhi winning the two seats. While there is a ceiling on the expenditure a candidate can incur on electioneering, there is no such limit for political parties.
Based on the EC’s suggestion, the Centre raised the election expenditure limit in January 2022 for candidates from Rs 70 lakh to Rs 95 lakh for Lok Sabha elections and from Rs 28 lakh to Rs 40 lakh for assembly elections.
For Lok Sabha polls, the revised expenditure limit now stands at Rs 90 lakh for larger states and Rs 75 lakh for smaller states. The 2024 Lok Sabha elections were conducted in seven phases, with results announced on June 4.
Last month, Congress submitted its “part election expenditure statement” for the Lok Sabha elections and the legislative assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Odisha, and Andhra Pradesh to the Election Commission.
This statement detailed the “lumpsum amount paid to candidates by the party” to contest the elections.
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