India, June 9 -- The row over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's allegations that Maharashtra's voter rolls were manipulated before the assembly elections just went up a notch. On Sunday, Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal demanded that a narco test be conducted on the state's chief electoral officer (CEO) S Chockalingam and his second-in-command Kiran Kulkarni to bring out the truth of the alleged vote theft.

Gandhi on Saturday wrote a newspaper article on the Maharashtra assembly elections, where he questioned the sudden rise in the number of voters in particular areas just before the assembly elections. On Sunday, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis countered this with another article. "Rahul Gandhi has insulted the people's ...