Congress Reveals Money Rahul Gandhi Received To Fight Lok Sabha Polls

New Delhi: 

The Congress gave its leader Rahul Gandhi ₹ 70 lakh each for fighting the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Wayanad and Rae Bareli, the party has disclosed to the Election Commission.

The only Congress candidate to get a higher amount was Vikramaditya Singh, who was given ₹ 87 lakh from the party fund but he lost the election from Mandi seat in Himachal Pradesh to actor Kangana Ranaut of the BJP.

Other leaders to get ₹ 70 lakh 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 candidate from Gulbarga in Karnataka Radhakrishna and Vijay Inder Singla (Anandpur Sahib in Punjab) also got ₹ 70 lakh each.

Senior Congress leaders Anand Sharma and Digvijay Singh, both of whom lost the elections, got ₹ 46 lakh and ₹ 50 lakh, respectively.

Mr Gandhi had won from Rae Bareli as well as Wayanad, but he retained the Uttar Pradesh seat.

The party had won 99 seats in the parliamentary polls with Mr Gandhi winning from the two seats.

While there is a ceiling on expenditure a candidate can incur on electioneering, there is no such limit for political parties