EC must explain how Maharashtra has more registered voters than adult population: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday urged the Election Commission to explain a series of alleged anomalies in Maharashtra’s voter list, and urged the poll panel to share with the Opposition the state’s electoral rolls for the 2024 Lok Sabha election and the Assembly election held five months apart.

The general election took place in April and May, followed by the state polls in November.

Gandhi asked the poll panel to clarify how the number of registered voters for the Assembly election (9.7 crore) was more than the entire adult population of the state (9.54 crore).

He also urged it to explain why more voters were added to the state’s electoral rolls in the period between the Lok Sabha election and the Assembly polls than in the preceding five years.

About 39 lakh voters – equal to Himachal Pradesh’s entire voting population – were added to Maharashtra’s electoral rolls between the Lok Sabha election and the Assembly polls, Gandhi claimed. In comparison, just 32 lakh electors were added between the 2019 Maharashtra election and the 2024 parliamentary election, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha told reporters.

He cited the example of the Kamthi Assembly seat in the Nagpur district, where he claimed that the BJP’s winning margin in the 2024…

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