.NEARLY ONE BILLION people are actually casting their votes in India's standard election. It is actually the biggest autonomous exercise in past-- and could possibly additionally be actually the absolute most costly. Costs is expected to get to 1.35 trn rupees ($ 16bn), according to the Centre 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 sprinkled in The United States's presidential political election in 2020. Why do Indian political parties spend such extensive totals?