Mumbai: The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Friday accused the ruling coalition of misusing the federal government equipment to take away professional voters from the voter lists’ forward of the Maharashtra Meeting elections 2024.
Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole whereas addressing an MVA press convention stated, “The BJP is making modifications to the voter checklist and eradicating names of the voters from the electoral rolls, regardless of the Election Fee’s assurance of free and truthful elections in Maharashtra.”
Notably, Maha Vikas Aghadi is the alliance of Congress, Shiv Sena-UBT (Uddhav Thackeray’s faction) and NCP-SP (Sharad Pawar’s faction). They’re up in opposition to ruling Mahayuti is the alliance of BJP, NCP and Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction).
He additional alleged that CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis are concerned on this, including that BJP is afraid of dropping the elections.
“Type Quantity 7 is used to get names deleted from the present electoral roll by elevating objections. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis are concerned behind all this,” stated Patole. He added, “The BJP is conscious they’re dropping the elections in Maharashtra and that’s the reason they’ve resort to such ways. The state won’t forgive them for it.”
Shiv Sena UBT chief Anil Desai additionally spoke on the press convention right here and urged voters to solid their franchise in an unbiased and truthful mannerism.
He additionally talked about that the MVA delegation was scheduled to fulfill the chief electoral officer of Maharashtra later within the day, demanding that the method of deletion of names via on-line functions be discontinued.
In the meantime, a delegation of MVA met the Chief Electoral officer of the state S Chockalingam. Earlier within the day, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut introduced that he plans to debate seat-sharing preparations with Rahul Gandhi for the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance and famous that there have been many seats on which choices remained pending.
Sanjay Raut stated that many of the leaders of Maharashtra are usually not able to taking choices and stated, “Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena are within the alliance, Samajwadi Occasion, Peasants and Staff Occasion of India (PWP) are additionally there. They need to ship the checklist to Delhi repeatedly. Now that point has handed. We wish this determination to be taken as quickly as doable.
“I’ve spoken to Mukul Wasnik within the morning. Right this moment I may also converse to Rahul Gandhi and the pending determination concerning seat sharing shall be expedited. Choices have been taken on many seats. There are some seats on which a choice just isn’t being taken,” he added.
Including additional, he stated, “There isn’t any main distinction of opinion between NCP and Shiv Sena, not even in Congress however there are some seats on which all three events declare. Nana Patole is our ally in Maharashtra, however there’s a drawback on some seats, it will likely be resolved.”
Raut emphasised that regardless of dealing with such challenges, they continue to be resolute in standing as much as the BJP. The UBT Sena MP additionally took a dig on the election comssion claiming that they have been biased.
“The Election Fee has given some necessary choices, and we really feel that these choices are in opposition to the pursuits of the Maha Vikas Aghadi, and can assist Shinde and the BJP. The Election Fee and the Supreme Court docket are usually not impartial. They’re the B, C and D groups of the BJP,” he stated.
Meeting elections in Maharashtra shall be held in a single section on November 20, the Election Fee of India introduced on Tuesday (October 15, 2024). With this, the political events have begun gearing up for an election that shall be unprecedented in some ways.
Within the 2019 Maharashtra Meeting polls, the Congress and unified Shiv Sena had gained 154 out of 288 seats as a part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition. Nonetheless, this time across the Shiv Sena (UBT), Sharad Pawar’s NCP and Congress are in alliance to counter the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance.
Within the Lok Sabha election held this yr, MVA gained 30 of the state’s 48 Lok Sabha seats. The ruling alliance gained 17. One seat went to an Unbiased candidate. Elections in Maharashtra shall be held on November 20, whereas the counting of votes will happen on November 23.
