New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi, Chief of Opposition on Friday alleged discrepancies in lately concluded Maharashtra Meeting Elections. He was accompanied by his Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) companions Sanjay Raut and Supriya Sule when he the Congress chief raised considerations over the surge in new voters, notably between the 2024 Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections in Maharashtra.
Gandhi stated that 39 lakh new voters have been added in simply 5 months after the Lok Sabha polls. “In 5 years between Vidhan Sabha 2019 and Lok Sabha 2024 elections, 32 lakh voters have been added to the electoral rolls in Maharashtra. Nonetheless, in a interval of 5 months between Lok Sabha 2024 and Vidhan Sabha 2024, 39 lakh new voters have been added in Maharashtra. The query is why extra voters have been added in 5 months after the Lok Sabha elections than are being added in 5 years prior. Who’re these 39 lakh folks?” Gandhi questioned in a press convention on the Structure Membership in Delhi.
Rahul additional requested why the variety of registered voters in Maharashtra is greater than all the inhabitants of the state.
“Based on the federal government, the grownup inhabitants of Maharashtra is 9.54 crores. Based on the Election Fee, there are extra voters in Maharashtra than folks within the state. Someway, voters have been out of the blue added in Maharashtra,” he stated.
Rahul Slams BJP Over Voter Record Discrepancies
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has accused the BJP of benefiting from voter checklist discrepancies in Maharashtra. He claimed that new voter additions performed a key position within the Meeting election outcomes, demanding solutions from the Election Fee (EC).
Gandhi identified that the vote share of Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), and NCP (SCP) remained constant in each Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections. “We bought the identical quantity of votes. Congress vote in Lok Sabha 2024 in a constituency is 1.36 lakh votes and in Vidhan Sabha, we get 1.34 lakh,” he stated.
He alleged that the BJP gained a bonus as a result of addition of 35,000 new voters in the identical constituency. “BJP in Lok Sabha will get 1.9 lakh votes after which in Vidhan Sabha they get 1.75 lakh votes. Most of these voters who supplied the BJP their victory come from these 35,000 new voters who’ve been added. It’s the case in a number of constituencies,” he added.
Gandhi demanded the voter lists for each elections from the EC. “We’ve been saying to the Election Fee that we’re discovering anomalies. We want the voter checklist—names and addresses of the voters of Maharashtra. We want the voter checklist of the Lok Sabha election. We want the voter checklist of the Vidhan Sabha election. As a result of we need to perceive precisely who these new further voters are,” he stated.
He additionally alleged that many citizens have been deleted or transferred to completely different cubicles. “Most of those voters come from Dalit communities, tribal communities, and minority communities… We’ve made repeated requests to the election fee. They haven’t answered us,” he acknowledged. He additional stated that the EC’s silence recommended one thing was flawed. “I’m not making any accusations. I’m presenting knowledge right here clearly,” he added.
In response, the Election Fee defended its place. In a publish on X, it stated, “ECI considers political events, as precedence stakeholders, in fact the voters being the prime & deeply values views, solutions, questions coming from political events. Fee would reply in writing with full factual & procedural matrix uniformly adopted throughout the nation.”
The Congress has been elevating considerations about electoral transparency, however the EC is but to supply an in depth response.
(With ANI inputs)
