Nashik, Aug. 24 -- Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pravin Darekar, once a prominent figure in Raj Thackeray's own party, today challenged the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief to provide concrete evidence of alleged vote tampering to the Election Commission instead of making verbal accusations.
Raj Thackeray, while addressing a workers' meeting, has backed the claims made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi that the BJP won power through vote manipulation.
Thackeray said that even before the Lok Sabha elections, he had raised concerns about irregularities and had met NCP (SP) Sharad Pawar and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on the issue, even suggesting a boycott of the elections to draw international attention. However, he alle...