Political funding: the fountainhead

Political funding: the fountainhead: "Only four out of 6,753 candidates in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections declared that they had spent more than the limit of Rs 25 lakh on their election. The declared expenses of another 30 were between Rs 22.5-25 lakh (90-100%). The remaining, 6,719 said they had spent between Rs 12 and 14 lakh (48-56%). Given the large-scale clamour about increased election expenses by political parties, and the general public perception about how much is spent on elections, something seems amiss, or to paraphrase Justice Markandey Katju of the Supreme Court, and William Shakespeare, something seems to be wrong with the state of politics in India."