New Delhi: Alleging manipulation in voters’ list of Maharashtra, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Congress will be forced to approach the cCourt if the Election Commission does not provide the full list of voters at the earliest.
Addressing a press conference at the Constitution Club of India here along with NCP-SP leader Supriya Sule and Shiv Sena-UBT leader Sanjay Raut, he alleged, “Between the 2019 Vidhan Sabha election and the 2024 Lok Sabha election, 32 lakh voters were added to Maharashtra’s electoral rolls over five years. However, between the 2024 Lok Sabha election and the 2024 Vidhan Sabha election, 39 lakh new voters were added in just five months”.
The former Congress president demanded from the Election Commission the entire voters’ list of Maharashtra with names, addresses and pictures.
Gandhi also alleged that “Many voters have been either deleted or transferred as they come from the Dalit, Tribal and minority communities”.
“We don’t know how many voters have been deleted or where. We only know how many have been added. And we suspect that the number of deletions is much more than the number of additions,” the Rae Bareli MP added.
Accusing the Election Commission of losing control of the list in Maharashtra, Rahul asked the poll body, “Why did the EC add more voters in Maharashtra in 5 months than it did in 5 years? Why were there more registered voters in Vidhan Sabha 2024 than the entire adult population of Maharashtra?”
The leader of opposition in Lok Sabha also gave an example of Kamthi Assembly Constituency in Maharashtra alleging that 35,000 new voters were added.
He further said that Kamthi Constituency was just an example claiming that there were several constituencies in the state where such discrepancies have been found.
Meanwhile, Sanjay Raut said that the issue put in front of the country is “very important”.
“If the Election Commission is not dead then the questions that Rahul Gandhi ji has asked should be answered”.
Calling the “39 lakh” voters as floating voters, Raut alleged,” These 39 lakh voters are following a pattern of the BJP as they are floating voters. They will go to all those states where elections are due. Some have come to Delhi, then they will go Bihar and then to Uttar Pradesh”.
Supriya Sule too flagged the same concern.
It may be mentioned during the motion of thanks to the President’s address, Rahul had also talked about the alleged “discrepancies in the Maharashtra voters’ list”.
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