Mumbai, June 7 -- Alleging that the BJP alliance has won the Maharashtra Assembly elections with the help of the Election Commission, senior Congress leader Nana Patole on Saturday raised a big question mark on the credibility of the EC.

Expressing his disbelief about the defeat of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in the state assembly elections, which were held within five months after a landslide victory of MVA in the Lok Sabha elections, he charged that the BJP alliance has won by robbing votes in the dark of night with the help of the EC.

"According to the data released by the EC, the voting was 58.22 percent at 5 pm on the polling day, 65.02 percent at 11.30 pm on the same night and 66.05 percent the next day on November 21, which clearly...