Fadnavis Must Quit for ‘Theft Of Democracy': Congress
Nagpur: Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Tuesday termed the 8% surge in voters in chief minister Devendra Fadnavis's Nagpur Southwest constituency in just five months 'electoral theft'.
He demanded that Fadnavis resign on moral grounds, claiming that voter manipulation and suspicious voter roll expansion helped the BJP-led alliance return to power in the state despite a poor showing in the Lok Sabha elections.
"Within five months, the voter list in the CM's constituency at certain booths grew 20% to 50%. This cannot be anything but organised electoral fraud," Sapkal said. He added that booth-level officers (BLOs) flagged unknown individuals casting votes, yet the Election Commission remained silent.
Referring to BJP state president Chandrashekhar Bawankule's Kamptee constituency, where Congress had earlier alleged serious voter roll anomalies, Sapkal said similar manipulation had now surfaced in Fadnavis's stronghold. "With Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi raising the issue of electoral rigging repeatedly, more evidence is coming to light every day. This is not just voter list manipulation; it's the theft of democracy," he claimed.
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The MPCC chief further questioned how the BJP, which suffered a decisive defeat in the parliamentary polls, could bounce back with a landslide in the state elections within just five months. He alleged that after 5pm on polling day, a sudden spike in voting was recorded, and the final turnout figures released the next day showed a suspicious 8% hike. "To date, the Election Commission has failed to give any credible explanation for this rise," he said.
Criticising the poll body's decision to delete CCTV footage 45 days after polling, Sapkal said it was a move designed to cover up the tampering. "Instead of ensuring transparency, the Election Commission has framed rules that make information inaccessible. Deleting CCTV footage is nothing but an attempt to bury the truth," he asserted.
Nitin Raut, former minister and senior Congress leader said, "BJP added 20,000 of their voters in my constituency, still failed to defeat me. But yes, due to this my lead came down." CM Fadnavis in his tweet had said that Rahul Gandhi should have spoken with Nitin Raut first as his constituency saw a jump in number of voters too.
Congress has demanded the immediate publication of machine-readable digital electoral rolls and access to all CCTV footage to allow public scrutiny.
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