Disillusioned with its defeat within the not too long ago held Maharashtra meeting elections, the Congress on Friday submitted an “pressing memorandum” to the Election Fee of India, elevating “grave inconsistencies” within the polls.
The grand outdated get together additionally urged the poll-governing physique to grant an “pressing in-person listening to” to lift all its points intimately.
Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh shared the 12-page doc on the microblogging website X, informing that the get together’s Maharashtra chief Nana Patole, together with Mukul Wasnik and Ramesh Chennithala submitted the memorandum to the EC.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi, consisting of the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), and NCP (Sharad Pawar), misplaced the Maharashtra elections to the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance. Congress managed to win 16 seats, whereas Sena (UBT) bagged 20 seats and NCP(SP) gained 10.
Cong’s allegations:-
- “Arbitrary deletion of voters and subsequent addition of over 10,000 voters in every constituency from the ultimate voter lists.”
- “Inexplicable enhance in voting percentages from 5 pm to the ultimate voter proportion declared by the EC at 11:30 pm on the day of polling.”
Referring to the primary problem it talked about, the Congress claimed that owing to the arbitrary deletion and addition of voters, Maharashtra noticed an “unprecedented enhance of an estimated 47 lakh voters being added to the electoral roll from between July 2024 – November 2024”.
“It’s vital to notice that out of the 50 Meeting Constituencies the place there was a mean enhance of fifty,000 voters, the ruling regime and its allies secured victory from 47 of those Constituencies,” the doc learn.
Additional, the get together mentioned that this problem although was raised by the MVA on October 19 earlier than the EC, no motion was taken by the ballot physique on this regard.
It corroborated the voter lists manipulation declare by citing an FIR registered by a Tujlapur Voter Registration Officer earlier than the Dharashiv Cyber Police Station, whereby a lot of pretend voter registrations between October 2 and 16 had been reported.
The grievance claimedthat people created “pretend Aadhar playing cards” with totally different names, images, and addresses.
The Tujlapur constituency was gained by BJP candidate Ranajagjitsinha Padmasinha Patil with 1,31,863 votes.
Citing this occasion and the “unprecedented enhance” within the variety of registered voters between the Lok Sabha elections in Could and the meeting elections in November, the Congress mentioned that “there may be little question that current safeguards of this Fee haven’t been capable of curb such an electoral fraud from being dedicated”.
Within the second problem, the grand outdated get together flagged the alleged surge within the voter turnout proportion between the 5 pm quantity and that of 11:30 pm.
The get together mentioned that the turnout at 5 pm, as per the EC, was reported to be 58.22 per cent, which later at 11:30 pm was mentioned to be 65.02 per cent. And “a number of hours previous to counting”, one other enhance within the voter turnout was reported, which stood at 66.05 per cent.
Between the polling hours on November 20, the Congress cited EC knowledge and claimed that round 76 lakh votes had been forged. On high of which, one other hike of roughly 10 lakh voters was made earlier than the counting of votes on November 23.
“From a typical sense viewpoint, over 70 lakh votes being case within the closing hour of polling is implausible and unparalleled in electoral historical past,” it mentioned.
The memorandum additional learn, “Even assuming the time taken by one particular person to case their vote is 2 minutes, it’s inconceivable for this Hon’ble Fee to have even come out with the ultimate knowledge by 11:30 contemplating that 76 lakh voters have exercised their franchise inside the final hour of polling.”
The Congress urged the Election Fee to carry “itself accountable” and supply a transparent response justifying the mentioned inconsistencies and discrepancies within the polls.
“We might additionally request that this Hon’ble Fee grant us an pressing in-person listening to to lift all our points intimately. In reality, other than the 2 points talked about herein, there are a number of different constituency particular points which we wish to elevate earlier than this Fee,” the grand outdated get together mentioned in its memorandum.
