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In the aftermath of a slew of allegations of ballot rigging, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) person Rohit Pawar, connected Thursday (October 16, 2025), highlighted method anomalies with grounds successful the voting process successful the 2024 Assembly elections held successful Maharashtra.
He gave a unrecorded objection of registering a elector successful the sanction of “Donald Tatya Trump”, on with Trump’s photo, based connected a bogus Aadhaar card, successful the Karjat constituency’s elector list, with a fake address, during an enactment with media persons successful Mumbai.
Calling it “Democracy Theft”, Mr. Pawar, besides nephew of erstwhile Chief Minister Sharad Pawar, said, “Many radical person taken retired Aadhaar cards conscionable similar Donald Trump’s Aadhaar paper and made respective fake ID cards.”
“Our IT adept searched for 1 specified website and came crossed this website. This website does not behaviour cross-verification; the fake ID, Aadhaar fig and demographic details person been utilized to make specified elector IDs. The predetermination officers are blindly conducting elections.”
Stressing connected the summation of voters betwixt 2019 and 2024, Mr. Pawar said, “In Lok Sabha polls, 32 lakh voters were added, 6.5 lakh voters per twelvemonth accrued oregon 54,000 per month. In six months alone, aft the Lok Sabha, during the Maharashtra assembly polls, 48 lakh voters were added.”
On the lines of Congress person Rahul Gandhi, Rohit Pawar gave a presentation, citing examples of addition, deletion, and duplication of voters successful Maharashtra’s elector list. A time ago, a delegation of the absorption met representatives of the State Election Commission (SEC) and Central Election Commission (CEC), raising concerns astir ballot rigging and aiming for just elections to beryllium conducted successful the upcoming section assemblage polls.
He cited the illustration of his ain constituency, the Karjat Jamkhed assembly. In six months, 14,162 duplicate names were added to elector rolls station Lok Sabha elections.
“Our enactment functionaries went to hunt for them successful these constituencies. We did not find any. BJP bureau bearer had entree to the EC elector list,” said Mr. Pawar, adding, “Say thing you want, but vote chori has happened, and present we person evidence.”
‘BJP bureau bearer had entree to the EC elector list’
He alleged that a methodology was designed by a BJP bureau bearer. “The EC and Bharatiya Janata Party bureau bearer Devang Dave had power implicit the commission’s website. Due to this, the wide nationalist has mislaid religion successful the commission,” said Rohit Pawar.
“Before us, Dave knew everything. Dave has done the enactment of adding and deleting things. So, the Election Commission should analyse the elector increase, supply accusation astir the summation successful voters,” helium said.
He demanded EC to supply an investigation of elector turnout, the crushed for the ample summation successful voters successful each constituency should beryllium explained successful writing, authoritative information should beryllium provided on with photocopies of voters registered and names excluded from the 2024 Assembly Elections to July 1, 2025, the integer updated elector lists, the DLO diary should beryllium made disposable to authoritative governmental parties for inspection, and others.
‘BJP is poaching’
Mr. Pawar besides alleged that the BJP has been poaching Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s MLAs and made a prediction that respective MLAs volition articulation the BJP earlier the 2029 elections.
“MLAs of Shiv Sena and NCP are successful interaction with BJP, wrong a blink of an eye, 20-25 MLAs volition leave. Look astatine Ahilyanagar’s NCP MLA Sangram Jagtap, contempt Ajit Pawar restraining him from making hatred speeches, helium continues to bash that.”
