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Opposition parties in Maharashtra will hold a grand rally on November 1 to urge the Election Commission to remove around “one crore bogus voters” from the electoral rolls, Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Sanjay Raut said .
According to PTI report, In a hastily called joint press conference at the Sena Bhavan, also addressed by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader Bala Nandgaonkar, Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar leader Jayant Patil and the Congress’ Sachin Sawant, Raut referred to MNS president Raj Thackeray’s claim that around 96 lakh “bogus” voters have been added to the voters list of Maharashtra ahead of the local body polls.
He demanded that the poll body must remove around “one crore bogus voters” from the electoral rolls in the state.
He said that ruling party MLAs Manda Mhatre (BJP) and Sanjay Gaikwad (Shiv Sena) have also spoken about the duplication of voters and irregularities in the electoral rolls.
“Electoral rolls should be clean. All major parties apart from the ruling parties, are raising this issue. The Election Commission is not ready to accept that the voters’ lists are not clean. We have to give the EC a jolt by hitting the streets. So on November 1, there will be a grand rally by all opposition parties against the EC’s corrupt act in Mumbai,” Raut said.
Lakhs of people who have lost their voting rights will take to the streets and show their strength, he said.
The rally will be led by NCP-SP president Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray and MNS’s Raj Thackeray, he said, adding that invitations will also be sent to senior leaders of the Congress.
