India, Nov. 4 -- Two days after the opposition charged the BJP with winning the assembly elections by rigging the electoral rolls, the party hit back. In a press conference on Monday, BJP leader Ashish Shelar presented examples of 'repeated voters' (those entered on the lists of multiple booths), mainly Muslim, in 31 assembly constituencies and claimed that these had helped opposition candidates win the Lok Sabha polls and the opposition leaders in Assembly polls. Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, in response, thanked Shelar for confirming the opposition's allegations that there were indeed anomalies in the voters list.

Raj and Uddhav Thackeray, in a rally on Saturday, had called for duplicate voters to be beaten up for double voti...