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Opposition parties successful Maharashtra volition clasp a expansive rally connected November 1 to impulse the Election Commission of India (ECI) to region astir “one crore bogus voters” from the electoral rolls, Shiv Sena (UBT) person Sanjay Raut said connected Sunday (October 19, 2025).
In a hastily called associated property league astatine the Sena Bhavan, besides addressed by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) person Bala Nandgaonkar, NCP (SP) person Jayant Patil and the Congress’ Sachin Sawant, Mr. Raut referred to MNS president Raj Thackeray’s assertion that astir 96 lakh “bogus” voters person been added to the voters database of Maharashtra up of the section assemblage polls.
He demanded that the canvass assemblage indispensable region astir “one crore bogus voters” from the electoral rolls successful the state.
He said that ruling enactment MLAs Manda Mhatre (BJP) and Sanjay Gaikwad (Shiv Sena) person besides spoken astir the duplication of voters and irregularities successful the electoral rolls.
“Electoral rolls should beryllium clean. All large parties isolated from the ruling parties, are raising this issue. The ECI is not acceptable to judge that the voters’ lists are not clean. We person to springiness the ECI a jolt by hitting the streets. So, connected November 1, determination volition beryllium a expansive rally by each absorption parties against the ECI’s corrupt enactment successful Mumbai,” Mr. Raut said.
“Lakhs of radical who person mislaid their voting rights volition instrumentality to the streets and amusement their strength,” helium said.
“The rally volition beryllium led by NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) main Uddhav Thackeray and MNS’s Raj Thackeray,” helium said, adding that invitations volition besides beryllium sent to elder leaders of the Congress.
The Rajya Sabha MP said that Mr. Pawar and the Thackeray cousins volition code different property league connected the contented successful the adjacent fewer days.
“If the ECI is going to propulsion a situation earlier us, we are acceptable to judge it,” Mr. Raut said.
Earlier successful the day, Raj Thackeray alleged that 96 lakh fake voters person been added to Maharashtra’s electoral rolls and challenged the ECI, asking however it volition clasp the section assemblage polls without cleaning up the voters’ list.
Mr. Pawar, the Thackeray cousins and different absorption leaders met State Election Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare and Chief Electoral Officer S. Chockalingam connected October 14, submitting representations astir alleged discrepancies successful the voters’ lists.
The Opposition has called for rectification successful the electoral rolls and removal of anomalies up of the agrarian and municipality assemblage elections, which are to beryllium completed by January 31, 2026.
The Maharashtra State Election Commission connected Saturday (October 18) said that nary governmental enactment tin tamper with the electoral rolls and that corrections and updates connected the elector lists are being managed securely.
Speaking astatine the property conference, Mr. Sawant claimed that determination were irregularities successful the voters’ database and absorption leaders are not being fixed a accidental to code them.
This is detrimental to democracy, helium said.
MNS person Nandgaonkar said the canvass assemblage has realised that determination is simply a mess, and the November 1 protestation volition bespeak nationalist outcry.
Terming the ECI’s effect arsenic “unsatisfactory”, Mr. Patil said the Opposition is besides acceptable to person the ruling parties beryllium portion of the morcha, which is against those who privation to harm democracy.
“We expect the canvass assemblage to rectify its mistake,” Mr. Patil said.
