Overview

• Speaking at the India Today Conclave in Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said, “whoever is in love with Nepal can stay there,” targeting Rahul Gandhi’s protest pitch.
• He argued that India’s Gen Z “thinks different” and lacks time to protest, calling Gandhi “alone” and “hopeless” in efforts to unseat the government.
• Fadnavis reaffirmed that the Mahayuti alliance of the BJP, Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena, and Ajit Pawar’s NCP will contest the 2029 Maharashtra Assembly and the next Lok Sabha elections together.
• Rahul Gandhi recently urged students and Gen Z to “save the Constitution” and “stop vote theft,” citing alleged illegal deletion and addition of votes via centralized software.
• The Election Commission has rejected Gandhi’s vote‑tampering allegations as “baseless,” keeping the dispute in the political realm rather than establishing institutional wrongdoing.