West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to call an all-party meeting to discuss public funding of Indian elections. She also pressed on the need for electoral reforms.

Banerjee cited a report titled 'Poll Expenditure, the 2019 election' by the Centre of Media Studies (CMS) and said that Lok Sabha elections 2019 were the "most expensive election ever, anywhere" and twice as expensive as the Parliamentary election held in 2014.