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The United Conservative Party will pay back more than $7,000 in taxpayer funds after party leader Jason Kenney and now former UCP MLA Prab Gill were accused of improperly using MLA expenses for partisan purposes.

Gill, the MLA for Calgary-Greenway, resigned from the UCP caucus Saturday, a day after the party received a report into alleged ballot-stuffing and improper handling of votes at the June 30 founding annual general meeting of the UCP’s Calgary-North East constituency association.

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The party is refusing to make the report public, despite calls from the Alberta NDP.

But the NDP caucus scored a political hit on the UCP Monday with a news release raising concerns about a Feb. 23 banquet hosted by Gill that he expensed to the legislative assembly for $7,245.

In a video posted on Facebook from the event, Kenney asks those in attendance to help defeat the NDP government and take part in the UCP’s founding convention and candidate nomination processes.

Kenney tweeted the next day that the event was for UCP supporters.