Overview

• Senior MVA leaders held a second meeting with SEC Dinesh Waghmare and CEO S. Chockalingam and submitted a letter detailing alleged voter-roll anomalies.
• The examples cited included duplicate entries, missing addresses, more than 180 voters listed at one home, and a 124-year-old voter paired with a father recorded at about 40.
• The Opposition insisted the current rolls not be used, rejected the July 31 cutoff, and sought a special intensive revision on the lines of Bihar.
• They also pressed for VVPAT in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation polls or a shift to ballot papers if VVPAT is unavailable.
• Congress’s Balasaheb Thorat said the SEC disclaimed responsibility for removing objectionable names, as the state government dismissed the exercise as a “fiasco,” while Raj Thackeray suggested a six-month postponement and leaders said they would await a response for two days.