MUMBAI, Nov. 4 -- 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 voting. Raj, while reading out a list, said that "some Bhoir and Patil from Bhiwandi and Dombivli" were also registered as voters in Malabar Hill. Seizing the opportunity to give it a religious spin, BJP representative Shelar said that the cousins were questioning only Hindu and Dalit voters while repeated Muslim voters were not mentioned because the opposition MVA had benefited from them in the Lok Sabha polls. Shelar, in his presentation, said that the electoral rolls had eight types of anomalies in Muslim-dominated areas' voter lists. "In other Muslim-dominated constituencies such as Mumbadevi and Dharavi, multiple photos of a single voter have been registered with different names," he said. "The MVA constituents did not object to the duplicate entries in the Lok Sabha election, as they won more seats than us," he said. "The difference in votes polled by the two sides was just 2.03 lakh, against which there were 16.84 lakh duplicate Muslim voters across the state. Some of the examples are startling. Rohit Pawar won by 1,243 votes while the duplicate voters in his constituency are 5,562. Nana Patole won by 208 votes with the help of 477 duplicate Muslim voters. Jitendra Awhad won with the help of 30,601 duplicate Muslim voters." Responding to Shelar, Thackeray congratulated him for confirming that there were anomalies in the voters' list, and riposted that he and other opposition leaders had demanded voter verification in all constituencies, including Muslim-dominated ones. Taking a dig at Devendra Fadnavis, who had called Aaditya the "Pappu of Maharashtra" after he made a presentation on dubious voters lists, Thackeray said, "By calling a press conference on anomalies in the voters list, Ashish Shelar proved that Devendra Fadnavis is, in fact, the Pappu of Maharashtra. Perhaps this is due to the internal politics of the BJP. I congratulate Shelar for this."...