Congress writes to EC, flags ‘grave inconsistencies’ in Maharashtra assembly elections
Hindustan TimesDisappointed with its defeat in the recently held Maharashtra assembly elections, the Congress on Friday submitted an "urgent memorandum" to the Election Commission of India, raising "grave inconsistencies" in the polls. Referring to the first issue it mentioned, the Congress claimed that owing to the arbitrary deletion and addition of voters, Maharashtra saw an "unprecedented increase of an estimated 47 lakh voters being added to the electoral roll from between July 2024 - November 2024". Citing this instance and the "unprecedented increase" in the number of registered voters between the Lok Sabha elections in May and the assembly elections in November, the Congress said that "there can be no doubt that existing safeguards of this Commission have not been able to curb such an electoral fraud from being committed". In fact, apart from the two issues mentioned herein, there are several other constituency specific issues which we would like to raise before this Commission," the grand old party said in its memorandum.