Mumbai/IBNS, June 8 -- Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has responded to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's claim of "match-fixing" in the 2024 state assembly elections and said the "one whom the public rejects, rejects the mandate."

His response comes a day after Gandhi, in an op-ed for The Indian Express, questioned the way the Maharashtra Assembly elections were conducted.

In the polls, the alliance of the Congress, the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena suffered a humiliating defeat.

He said the Congress has been rejected by the people, which is why they are now tarnishing the image of democracy by blaming the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM).

He a...