Mumbai: Aaditya Thackeray to hold party meeting on voter list irregularities

Following in senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhirsquos footsteps Shiv Sena UBT leader Aaditya Thackeray will be using the big screen to shed light on alleged irregularities in voter listsOn October 27 Sena UBT will organise a meeting for party workers at the NSCI Dome in Worli during which Aaditya will address the issue which the Opposition has been highlightingSena UBT MP Sanjay Raut said ldquoThose who doubt the allegation of errors in voter lists and are asking for evidence should watch thescreen carefullyrdquoLast month Gandhi the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament held a press conference to demonstrate how names were missing and duplicated in voter lists The Congress leader also cited alleged cases where hundreds of voters were mentioned as residing at the same addressAfter this the noise over irregularities in the electoral rolls started getting louder Accordingly the Opposition in Maharashtra has started coming out with anomalies in the listsOn November 1 the entire Opposition called for a protest rally against the Election Commission EC for ignoring their demands to rectify the voter lists and postpone the local body elections till errors are fixedThe Supreme Court has set January 31 2026 as the deadline for conducting local body elections across MaharashtraMeanwhile the Maharashtra Congress too will be holding a conference on goofups in voter lists in Mumbai on Saturday October 25Oct 27Day Shiv Sena UBT meet in Worli will be organisedPhone surveillance fracasMaharashtra revenue minister Chandrashekar Bawankule slammed the Opposition for ldquospreading false informationrdquoRecently during a public rally in Bhandara district in Vidarbha region the minister stated that the WhatsApp group of party workers was under surveillance ldquoThose who indulge in mischief will be shown the door for five yearsrdquo Bawankule apparently stated during his address to cadres ahead of the upcoming local body pollsFollowing this the Opposition immediately launched a fierce attack on the ruling Mahayuti over phone surveillanceShiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut claimed that besides members from the Opposition camps even alliance partnersrsquo phones were being monitored Raut demanded an inquiry against Bawankule in this connection ldquoMonitoring phones is a misuse of power and a serious crime Bawankule should be interrogated for his statementrdquo Raut demandedHowever reacting to the development Bawankule slammed the Opposition for twisting the entire episode ldquoI was talking about a local WhatsApp group of BJP party members and not about phone or call recording I donrsquot understand why the Opposition has to interfere in other partiesrsquo business and that too without understanding the details of the subjectrdquo the revenue minister added