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Mumbai, Oct 27 (IANS) Shiv Sena-UBT leader and former Maharashtra minister Aditya Thackeray on Monday raised the issue of “vote theft” and appealed to party workers to adopt a “my responsibility is my list (voter list)” approach ahead of the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections.
At the party’s scheduled rally, Aaditya Thackeray called on workers to check duplicate names, dead voters, wrong photos and addresses and multiple entries from the same location. He claimed that the voter list is a fraud and urged party workers to expose the “scam”, stop fraudulent voting and ensure a determined fight to win the BMC elections.
He appealed to the department heads, branch heads and sub-branch heads to contribute to the party’s victory. He also announced that the opposition and like-minded parties would hold a march in Mumbai on 1 November to highlight “vote theft” and discrepancies in voter lists. “We have to stop fraud in the voter list, otherwise the results will be changed due to fake voting,” he warned.
Aditya gave a presentation titled ‘Fake Voters of Fake Government’ similar to Rahul Gandhi’s earlier campaign on alleged voter irregularities and claimed that fake voting had taken place in his Worli constituency too. He said he personally checked the Mumbai and Worli voter lists and found “huge discrepancies”, vowing to stop vote theft ahead of the BMC elections.
Making a “sensational claim” of 19,333 voters having discrepancies, he said, “The number of voters in Worli assembly constituency has increased from 2,52,970 in the Lok Sabha to 2,63,352 in the Assembly, with the addition of 16,043 new voters and deletion of 5,661 voters.”
He said, “Vote theft everywhere means election theft. It was expected that the Maha Vikas Aghadi government would win the assembly elections, but at that time this scam could not be caught. The elections will not be fought only through campaigning, but will be fought with the voter list in hand. Everyone should read the list carefully.”
Saying that there were problems with 22,000-23,000 names in Worli alone, he warned that the number would be in lakhs across Mumbai. He further alleged that since the Election Commission is “working for the BJP”, party workers should remain alert. Aditya said, “502 voters were found whose name and father’s name were same. 720 were voters whose father is Patel and voters with name Mhatre. 643 were registered as male for female. 28 voters were without EPIC number and 133 voters were with the same EPIC.”
He also cited cases where the same person had multiple EPIC numbers. He claimed that Narahari Kulkarni “was declared dead in the Lok Sabha, but returned to the Assembly and voted”. “Worli has 113 voters above 100 years of age. If you want to live longer, come to Worli!” He quipped.
He alleged that dead voters also remained in the rolls and “must have voted”. The names of 1,200 voters were deleted after the assembly elections, but they are suspected to have already cast their votes. Aditya said several photographs were missing, voter cards appeared in three languages and several discrepancies were captured on video.
“There were more than 4,000 voters without addresses. There were 214 houses in which one small house showed 38 voters. Besides, Ghasitaram Halwai shop had 48 voters registered,” he alleged.
–IANS
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