.NEARLY ONE BILLION folks are directing their enact India's standard election. It is the biggest autonomous exercise in history-- as well as might additionally be actually the most expensive. Investing is actually assumed to get to 1.35 trn rupees ($ 16bn), according to the Facility for Media Research Studies (CMS), an Indian non-profit. That would be actually much more than double the volume devoted in the previous political election in 2019 and also also go over the money sprayed in The United States's presidential election in 2020. Why do Indian political parties devote such vast totals?