India News : Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde has stoked a controversy by his candid admission about spending Rs eight crore on his 2009 Lok Sabha campaign, with Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil demanding that the Election Commission take cognizance and decide on whether to allow him to contest again.

Munde also openly dared the Election Commission to act against him for his remark and sought state funding of elections to check use of black money.