New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged large-scale irregularities in the voter list for the Maharashtra assembly elections, stoking a political controversy and prompting the Election Commission of India (ECI) to announce that it will respond with details of the factual and procedural matrix adopted uniformly across India.
Gandhi's Congress was part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) that suffered a humiliating defeat in the Maharashtra elections at the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Mahayuti, which won 235 out of the 288 seats in the crucial western state. The results came just months after the MVA won a convincing 30 out of the state's 48 Lok Sabha seats in the general elections.
Addressing a press...