New Delhi: Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh has filed a complaint with the EC against PM Modi for allegedly exceeding the ceiling of Rs 70 lakh in his Varanasi roadshow on Thursday. The AAP leader claimed Rs 1.27 crore was spent on the roadshow. Giving break-up, he said, “The expenses incurred on private jets used by BJP leaders to reach Varanasi were Rs 64 lakh, Rs 15 lakh for commercial flights of over 100 BJP leaders, Rs 8 lakh hotel expenses, Rs 6 lakh for vehicles, Rs 5 lakh spent on food, Rs 5 lakh on poll accessories, Rs 2 lakh each on social media campaign, sound system and stage, Rs 20 lakh to ferry BJP workers by train.” PTI
Priyanka Chaturvedi gets ‘Upneta’ post in Shiv Sena
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena has appointed former Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi, who recently joined the Uddhav Thackeray-led party, as its “Upneta” or deputy leader. Chaturvedi said it was time to “change Sena’s history of Hindi-speaking leaders not staying in the party for long”. “I had changed history in the Congress 10 years back when I went on to become the national spokesperson of that party from a district general secretary of Youth Congress." She quit Congress after some workers who allegedly misbehaved with her were reinstated. PTI
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