‘Maharashtra Sample…’: Sanjay Raut Alleges ‘Voter Record Fraud’ After BJP Clinches Delhi – News18
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Whereas talking to the reporters over the Delhi Meeting Polls outcomes, Raut took a pot shot at Election Fee of India (ECI) saying that the ballot physique had been turning a blind eye to severe issues.
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Because the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) clinched the bastion of nationwide capital of Delhi from the ruling Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) on Saturday, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut alleged {that a} “Maharashtra sample” of voter checklist fraud has been repeated in Delhi.
Whereas talking to the reporters over the Delhi Meeting Polls outcomes, Raut took a pot shot at Election Fee of India (ECI) saying that the ballot physique had been turning a blind eye to severe issues.
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“We held a press convention in Delhi yesterday on the Election Fee and authorities’s perspective in direction of elections… how fraud in voters’ checklist is going down, and this Maharashtra sample is new, and I additionally mentioned that the identical sample has been applied in Delhi. EC was sitting with its eyes closed,” Raut mentioned as quoted by information company PTI.
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“The 39 lakh votes which have elevated in Maharashtra in 5 months will now shift to Bihar, some will go to Delhi… You assume individuals are voting for BJP, no one desires to vote for BJP, that is pressured voting,” he added.
He additional steered {that a} Congress-AAP alliance (who’re allies within the opposition’s INDIA bloc) might have modified the end result. He said that each events aimed to maintain the BJP out of energy however did not unite, which could have secured the BJP’s defeat.
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“The early traits present a pointy competitors. Had Congress and AAP been collectively, the outcomes might have been totally different. The political opponent of AAP and Congress is BJP. Each of them fought to maintain BJP from coming to energy, however they fought individually. If that they had been collectively then BJP’s defeat would have been confirmed within the first hour (of counting),” he emphasised.
Raut has been essential of the ballot physique after within the not too long ago held Maharashtra elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) in an alliance with the Congress and the NCP (Sharad Pawar faction), received solely 20 seats within the 288-member meeting.
Rahul Gandhi Alleges Voter Fraud in Maharashtra
Earlier on Friday, Lok Sabha Chief of Opposition Rahul Gandhi raised issues over the surge in new voters, significantly between the 2024 Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections in Maharashtra, highlighting that 39 lakh new voters had been added in simply 5 months after the Lok Sabha polls.
Addressing a press convention on the Structure Membership in Delhi alongside Maha Vikas Aghadi companions Sanjay Raut and Supriya Sule, Rahul Gandhi additionally questioned discrepancies in voter registration figures, claiming that the variety of registered voters exceeded Maharashtra’s whole grownup inhabitants.
“We wish to convey to the discover of the folks of India some info that we’ve got discovered concerning the Maharashtra elections. We’ve studied intimately the voter lists, the voting sample and we’ve got a group engaged on this for a while. There are a lot of irregularities that we’ve got discovered,” Gandhi mentioned.
Delhi Election Outcomes 2025
BJP delivered a convincing defeat to the AAP within the Delhi Meeting elections on Saturday. It’s is poised to type a authorities in Delhi for the primary time since 1998, with the newest Election Fee traits displaying the saffron social gathering forward in 48 of the 70 meeting seats and AAP in 22.
The most important blows to the AAP got here as social gathering supremo Arvind Kejriwal and former Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia misplaced from their seats – New Delhi and Jangpura – respectively, to BJP’s Parvesh Singh Sahib and Tarvinder Singh Marwah.
Congress, which had dominated the nationwide capital for 15 years below Sheila Dikshit, was nowhere near the competition.
