The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has so far splurged a whopping amount of approximately ₹5,000 crore in advertisement and publicity through different media, an RTI reply has revealed.

Noida-based RTI activist Ramveer Tanwar had sought details from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting related to all the expenditure incurred by the Modi government on self-promotion, advertisement and publicity in all media since 2014.

The Modi government, according to the reply, has spent the highest amount of money--approximately ₹2208 crore--on advertisements through electronic media, followed by a massive expenditure on print media for publicity.