The Aam Aadmi Party has lodged a complaint with the returning officer of Varanasi against Narendra Modi, alleging that the Bharatiya Janata Party has spent over over Rs1000 crore for its campaigning in the temple town and tha tpeople were "bribed".   

"According to the statements by leaders of the BJP and media reports at least 2-3 lakh people participated in the rally. Half of them (taking a very conservative estimate on the lower-side) were wearing/carrying one or more of the items mentioned below with the election-symbol of BJP and/or nameand the pictorial representation of BJP's candidate," said a letter written by party's national secretary Pankaj Gupta to the returning officer.

In its complaint, the party has said that Rs 5,75,00,000 were spent on caps, sarees, flags, masks, cutouts and T-shirts when Modi held a roadshow on the day of filing his nomination from the temple town.