Navi Mumbai, Oct. 19 -- Leaders and MLAs from the ruling "Mahayuti" alliance have started echoing the opposition's allegations about massive irregularities in the state's voter lists, creating serious embarrassment for the Election Commission (EC). All three major parties in the ruling coalition have now publicly criticised the EC for errors and fake entries in the lists.
In Navi Mumbai, BJP MLA Manda Mhatre today alleged that there is a large number of bogus names in the voter list and held election officials responsible for the lapse. Similarly, NCP (Ajit Pawar faction) MLA Satish Chavan, speaking in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, claimed there were as many as 36,000 fake voters in the Gangapur constituency, adding that the administration ha...