40. If there are limits on the amount a political party can spend, what is the limit?

Art. 44CC (3) 'No such political party shall expend during the aforesaid period for election purposes, including election expenses for the contesting candidates set up by it, an amount exceeding-(a) where the number of such candidates is more than two hundred, taka 1[ taka four crore and fifty lakh],(b) where the number of such candidates is more then one hundred but not more than two hundred, [taka three crore],(c) where the number of such candidates is not more than one hundred taka seventy five lakh [more than fifty but not more than one hundred, taka one crore and fifty lakh,[(d) where the number of such candidates is not more than fifty, taka seventy five lakh,][Provided that the amount mentioned in sub-clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d) shall be subject to maximum taka one lakh and fifty thousand per candidate.

Source: Representation of the People Order, 1972.

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