.NEARLY ONE BILLION folks are actually casting their votes in India's basic vote-casting. It is the largest autonomous physical exercise in record-- and could possibly also be actually the most pricey. Investing is assumed to get to 1.35 trn rupees ($ 16bn), according to the Center for Media Researches (CMS), an Indian non-profit. That would be actually greater than double the quantity spent in the previous vote-casting in 2019 as well as even go beyond the cash money sprinkled in United States's presidential political election in 2020. Why carry out Indian political parties spend such vast totals?