.NEARLY ONE BILLION individuals are casting their enact India's overall vote-casting. It is the biggest democratic physical exercise in past-- and also can likewise be the absolute most pricey. Spending is actually assumed to connect with 1.35 trn rupees ($ 16bn), depending on to the Centre for Media Studies (CMS), an Indian non-profit. That will be more than double the volume spent in the previous political election in 2019 and even go beyond the cash sprayed in United States's presidential vote-casting in 2020. Why do Indian political parties invest such huge totals?