Overview
- Speaking in Nagpur, the Maharashtra chief minister rejected the vote-theft charge and said Rahul Gandhi was undermining faith in constitutional institutions.
- Fadnavis alleged Gandhi was advancing the agenda of external or international anti-India forces and said there was now reason to doubt his intentions.
- He cited unnamed media spot-checks to claim Gandhi showed morphed photos and that listed voters existed at the cited addresses, a contention not independently verified in these reports.
- Gandhi’s ‘H-files’ briefing in Delhi asserted that one in eight Haryana voters were fake, totaling 25 lakh entries, and accused the Election Commission of colluding with the BJP to steal the assembly election.
- Haryana’s chief electoral officer has asked Gandhi to file a signed affidavit supporting the 25 lakh figure, as Fadnavis also criticized Uddhav Thackeray’s Marathwada tour as election-focused ahead of Maharashtra’s Dec. 2 local body polls.