Nirmala Sitharaman said she declined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda’s offer to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Tamil Nadu or Andhra Pradesh citing lack of money. In a lighter vein she added that the Consolidated Fund of India does not belong to her. The poll panel’s limits on spending by parties are not adhered to, as parties find ingenuous ways of justifying spending over the prescribed cap.