-- The MLAs who won the December 2022 Gujarat Assembly elections spent on average Rs 27.10 lakh or 68 percent of the expense limit on campaigning, a report prepared by the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) said on Friday.

-- Under the Representation of the People Act, winning candidates are required to file election expenditure statements within 30 days of results. In the case of Gujarat elections, the deadline was January 8, 2023.

-- An analysis of these affidavits by the ADR showed that the 156 MLAs of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spent an average of Rs 27.94 lakh.