Ahead of BMC polls, Raut backs Raj Thackeray, claims 9.6 million fake voters

Shiv Sena UBT MP Sanjay Raut on Monday expressed support for Maharashtra Navnirman Sena MNS chief Raj Thackeray who recently alleged that 96 million fake voters have been added to the voter list reported ANIAddressing the issue in the press conference held today in Mumbai Raut clarified the partys position saying We have never said that we will not contest the BMC election We only said that first the voter list should be corrected According to Raj Thackeray 96 million voters are bogus in the listRaut further announced a protest action stating On November 1 all Opposition parties will participate in a long march against the bogus voters in the listMeanwhile Raut on Sunday announced plans for a meeting with election officials in Maharashtra led by party chief Uddhav Thackeray to address concerns over discrepancies in the voter list reported ANIRaut stated that Thackeray along with other party leaders including Raj Thackeray of MNS and Sharad Pawar of NCPSCP will meet officials to discuss voter list discrepanciesShiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray MNS chief Raj Thackeray Congress leaders NCPSCP chief Sharad Pawar will meet the officials and bring to their attention the issue of discrepancy in the voter list in MaharashtraThey do match fixing and then contest elections Sanjay Raut told reportersRaut alleged that electoral irregularities and matchfixing occur during elections emphasising the need for a thorough investigationHe accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of doing match fixing and contesting elections and announced to hold a massive march in Mumbai against the Election Commission of India ECI on November 1 which party chief Uddhav Thackeray MNS president Raj Thackeray and other opposition leaders will join reported ANIWe will have to take to the streets On November 1 all parties will launch a massive march in Mumbai against the Election Commission and show Maharashtras Election Commission MVA and opposition leaders Sharad Pawar Uddhav Thackeray Raj Thackeray and all other leaders will participate in this march Sanjay Raut told reportersRaut said that Opposition parties which have been fighting against the ECI over the alleged vote theft allegations under the leadership of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi have also begun in MumbaiToday we are presenting our stance on behalf of all parties Almost all members of the MNS are present here today which is a matter of happiness The press conference was called urgently to address the issue of the Election Commission scam which we have been fighting in Delhi under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi and which is now starting in Maharashtra as well he added reported ANIEarlier this year Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Maharashtra assembly election held in November 2024 was rigged and claimed that the same would be repeated in the Bihar assembly pollsRahul Gandhi claimed that there were fake voters in the Maharashtra Assembly Elections He alleged that the number of voters added to the list in the five months ahead of the polls was more than the number added in the last five yearsMaharashtra we werent able to tell the logic behind it In Maharashtra and Haryana we saw it right in front of our faces We said publicly and told EC more voters were added in five months than in five years in Maharashtra More voters than the entire population of Maharashtra Huge jump in voter turnout after 5 pm Our alliance got wiped out while the alliance swept in the Lok Sabha At the state level between Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha one crore voters came in he allegedWith inputs from ANI