Overview
- Minister Ashish Shelar held a press conference in Mumbai presenting examples he said show repeated Muslim voter entries across 31 constituencies won by MVA leaders.
- He alleged the number of duplicate entries in several seats exceeded the winners’ victory margins and extended the claim to the 2024 Lok Sabha contests.
- Shelar accused the MVA and Raj Thackeray’s MNS of highlighting duplicate Hindu names while ignoring Muslim entries, labeling the pattern “Vote Jihad.”
- He named constituencies of leaders including Rohit Pawar, Jitendra Awhad, Varun Sardesai, Jyoti Gaikwad, Aslam Shaikh and Sandeep Kshirsagar as having thousands of duplicates.
- The BJP urged Uddhav and Raj Thackeray to back an SIR and said it is prepared to contest local body elections, as Uddhav responded by thanking Shelar for confirming voter-list anomalies and sought verification across all seats.