Overview

• Sharad Pawar announced that NCP(SP) has begun reviewing voters’ lists across Maharashtra and will present a detailed study before moving to the courts.
• Party nominees cited alleged large-scale anomalies, including about 27,000 identical names and suspect entries in Shirur and what they call 49,000 fake votes in Hadapsar.
• Prashant Jagtap said the party sought Form 17A data from the Election Commission to check for multiple voting but was denied access.
• Jagtap added that he has approached the Bombay High Court over contested voter additions and deletions in his constituency.
• The BJP countered by accusing former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan’s relatives of multiple registrations in Karad, with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis asserting that Congress is responsible for ‘vote theft’.