After Nationalist Congress Get together (SP) chief Sharad Pawar raised doubts concerning the consequence of the lately held Maharashtra meeting elections, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday hit again at him, asking him ”to not mislead individuals of the nation”.
”Sharad Pawar, you’re a veteran chief. A minimum of, you shouldn’t mislead the individuals of this nation… When you settle for defeat, you’ll rapidly come out of it. I hope you’ll advise your colleagues to self-introspect,” Fadnavis stated in a submit on social media.
Talking in Kolhapur on Saturday, Pawar expressed shock on the Maharashtra Meeting election outcomes, citing figures for voting for various events and the seats they received.
”The Congress obtained 80 lakh votes however 15 of its candidates have been elected as MLAs. Shiv Sena (Shinde) received 79 lakh votes, they’ve 57 MLAs. NCP (SP) secured 72 lakh votes and has 10 MLAs. NCP (Ajit Pawar) obtained 58 lakh votes, and 41 candidates grew to become MLAs. These voting figures are shocking. We now have but to check them deeply. Until we get the official figures, we is not going to categorical doubts about EVMs,” stated Pawar.
In Maharashtra Meeting elections 2024, the ruling Mahayuti registered a landslide victory, successful 235 seats. Not one of the events within the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) had adequate seats to change into the Chief of Opposition, for the primary time in six many years.
“Although individuals have elected Mahayuti, they aren’t assured concerning the authenticity of the voting figures. There may be unease among the many individuals and that’s the reason after the elections, Maharashtra didn’t witness enthusiasm,” stated Pawar, who will later go to the Markadwadi village in Malshiras taluka of the Solapur district the place the police stopped an tried “repoll” utilizing poll papers by the villagers.
”I can’t perceive the rationale for the administration to cease the polling by poll papers… I don’t know beneath which regulation this was finished. I’ll go to Markadwadi and attempt to perceive the difficulty,” he stated.
Late Saturday night, Fadnavis reacted to Pawar’s remark by citing figures from earlier elections. ”You stated regardless of getting extra votes, your get together received fewer seats… Let me spotlight what occurred within the 2024 (Lok Sabha) elections. BJP secured 1,49,13,914 votes and received 9 seats. Nonetheless, the Congress obtained solely 96,41,856 votes and received 13 seats. Shiv Sena received 73,77,674 votes and received seven seats, NCP (SP) received 58,51,166 votes and received eight seats.”
Fadnavis added, “The 2019 Lok Sabha election figures are price highlighting. Congress received 87,92,237 votes and received one seat, after which the undivided NCP secured 83,87,363 votes and received 4 seats.”
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