Maharashtra: Mysterious voter surge exceeds inhabitants, says Rahul Gandhi

In one more stunning revelation, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, backed by Shiv Sena-UBT and NCP-SS leaders, has accused the Election Fee of India (ECI) of blatant electoral malpractice in Maharashtra.

Elevating severe issues over the integrity of the electoral course of, Gandhi identified an unprecedented surge of 39 lakh voters mysteriously added to the rolls between the Lok Sabha polls and state meeting elections — a quantity equal to the whole voter inhabitants of Himachal Pradesh.

At a joint press convention in Delhi, Rahul Gandhi, flanked by Supriya Sule of the NCP – Sharadchandra Pawar and Sanjay Raut of the Shiv Sena (UBT), lambasted the ECI for failing to supply a clear clarification.

“Within the 5 years between the 2019 meeting elections and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, solely 32 lakh voters had been added. However shockingly, in simply 5 months between the Lok Sabha and meeting elections, 39 lakh new names appeared within the voter listing. Who’re these individuals? The place did they arrive from?” Gandhi questioned.

Certainly, Gandhi identified, the entire variety of voters in accordance with the ECI seems to exceed the entire grownup inhabitants of Maharashtra per the federal government’s personal accounts. How is that this potential?

Furthermore, Gandhi asserted that the addition of those voters overwhelmingly benefited the BJP, whereas Opposition events retained their earlier vote share.

“The BJP has clearly engineered this course of to tilt the elections in its favour. It is a blatant try to hijack democracy,” he stated, calling for the ECI to launch detailed voter lists for each polls.