Passage 1
The BJP has won in Indore with a massive 10.09 lakh margin, receiving 12,26,751 votes. His nearest competitor: NOTA, with 2,18,674 votes.
The extraordinary result in Indore is the most votes that the “None Of The Above” (NOTA) option has ever received in any constituency to date. The previous NOTA record-holder was Gopalganj, in 2019, when 51,660 voters chose this option.
The Supreme Court directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to introduce the NOTA option for voters, in order to protect the secrecy of voters’ choice.
Source – https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/more-than-2-lakh-votes-nota-i
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Passage 2
Households across the country’s rural and urban areas spent the highest share of consumption expenditure on ‘beverages, refreshments and processed food’ among food items in 2022-23, but some states bucked the trend in favour of other items — ‘milk and milk products’, and ‘egg, fish & meat’.
In rural areas among all major states, the households of Haryana spent the maximum on ‘milk and milk products’ at 41.7 per cent as a percentage of total expenditure on food, while Kerala spent the most on ‘egg, fish & meat’ at 23.5 per cent, detailed report of Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) 2022-23 released by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Friday showed.
Source- https://indianexpress.com/article/business/economy/india
