Specious reasoning

BY ac| IN Media Watch Briefs | 23/12/2014

While discussing the assembly election results in Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir on Dec 23, Navika Kumar of Times Now argued that because the recently declared income tax returns by the Congress politicians exceed that of their BJP counterparts, Congress candidates must be spending more on the elections. Are IT returns an accurate indicator of a politician's actual expenditure during the elections or even of the pool of funds available to his/her party?

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