Overview

• Devendra Fadnavis said "whoever is in love with Nepal, can stay there," arguing Rahul Gandhi’s appeal to students and Gen Z to stop alleged vote theft will not work.
• He contended that India’s Gen Z lacks time for protests and is engaged in startups and sectors like AI, engineering and biotechnology.
• Fadnavis affirmed the Mahayuti alliance of the BJP, Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s NCP will contest the 2029 Lok Sabha and Maharashtra Assembly elections together.
• Addressing speculation about a national role, he stated he will remain in Maharashtra for the next five years.
• Gandhi has accused the Election Commission and the chief election commissioner over alleged voter roll manipulation and sought data for a Karnataka CID probe, which the ECI has publicly rejected as baseless.