Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Sunday dubbed Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis` rebuttal to Rahul Gandhi`s claims on the fairness of the Maharashtra assembly elections 2024 an "evasive attempt to distract the public", reported the PTI.

A day after Rahul Gandhi`s write-up triggered a political slugfest between Congress and BJP, CM Fadnavis on Sunday debunked the electoral "match-fixing and rigging" allegations through a newspaper article, stating "Rahul Gandhi has dismissed mandate of people as they rejected him", according to the PTI.

Addressing a press conference, Harshwardhan Sapkal demanded a narco test of Maharashtra`s Chief Electoral Officer S. Chockalingam and the then Additional CEO Kiran Kulkarni to "expose the truth behind the alleged "vote theft" in the Maharashtra assembly polls.