Maharashtra Elections Rigged? Rahul Gandhi Says Voter Data Was Fudged To Benefit BJP

The Maha Vikas Aghadi has alleged electoral fraud in last year's Maharashtra Assembly polls, claiming an inexplicable increase in registered voters that benefited the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Rahul Gandhi at the press conference on Friday.

Source : PTI

In an explosive claim about the Maharashtra Assembly election last year, the Maha Vikas Aghadi said that the results of the elections were fudged to benefit the Bharatiya Janata Party. Addressing a joint press conference of the MVA on Friday, Rahul Gandhi said there were more registered voters in Maharashtra than the entire voting population of Maharashtra.

"Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi ...In 5 years between the Vidhan Sabha elections in 2019 and Lok Sabha, 2024 -  32 lakh voters were added. However, in period of 5 months between Lok Sabha 2024 which these parties (Congress, NCP-SCP, Shiv Sena (UBT) won and Vidhan Sabha elections - 39 lakh voters were added," Gandhi said. 

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"The question is, who are these 39 lakh voters? That is equivalent to the total number of voters of Himachal Pradesh. The second point is, why there are more voters in Maharashtra than the entire voting population of the state?... Somehow, the voters have been suddenly created in Maharashtra," Gandhi further said. 

He further said that the number of voters in favour of the MVA parties — Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (Sharad Pawar) — had not reduced since the Lok Sabha elections, in which the alliance fared better than the Mahayuti. Citing the example of a constituency, Gandhi said: "The Congress got 1.36 lakh in Lok Sabha polls and 1.34 lakh votes in Vidhan Sabha. But BJP got 1.9 lakh votes in the Lok Sabha polls; in Vidhan Sabha, they got 1.75 lakh votes. Most of those who voted for the BJP were newly added to the electoral rolls," he alleged