The Bharat Rashtra Samithi has topped the income chart among regional parties for the financial year 2022-23 with Rs 737.67 crore, 42.38 percent of the total, according to poll rights body ADR.

The top five parties with the highest expenditure are All India Trinamool Congress which spent Rs 181.18 crore or 37.66 percent, followed by YSR-Congress which spent Rs 79.32 crore or 16.49 percent, BRS, which spent Rs 57.47 crore or 11.94 percent, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, which spent Rs 52.62 crore or 10.94 percent, and the Samajwadi Party, which spent Rs 31.41 crore or 6.53 percent of the total expenditure, ADR said.

In a revealing analysis of the financial health of India's regional political parties, the Association for Democratic Reforms has disclosed detailed income and expenditure reports for 39 out of 57 regional parties for the fiscal year 2022-23.

After BRS, the TMC had the highest income of Rs 333.45 crore or 19.16 percent, while the DMK reported an income of Rs 214.35 crore or 12.32 per cent of the total income of the 39 regional parties analysed in the ADR report.

Collectively, the top five parties accounted for Rs 1,541.32 crore, or 88.56 percent of the total income of the parties analysed while the total declared income of the 39 regional parties stood at Rs 1,740.48 crore, according to the analysis.