Can make fake Aadhaar for Rs.20 to become voter: MVA
Mumbai, Oct. 17 -- Can US President Donald Trump vote in Maharashtra? Opposition leaders claim it's possible, with the help of a fake Aadhaar card that can be created for as little as Rs.20.
A day after an Opposition delegation met election authorities to seek action against alleged anomalies in the electoral rolls, leaders from the Maha Vikas Aghadi continued to reveal more instances of irregularities in the voters' list.
At a press conference on Thursday, NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar alleged that bogus Aadhaar cards are being created to incorporate fake names in the electoral list. To support his claim, he showed an Aadhaar card with the name Donald Tatya Trump and a photo of the US president.
Pawar said his team of experts had found a website with the help of which they made the fake Aadhaar card by paying only Rs.20. The Aadhaar was generated on a bogus address in Pawar's Karjat-Jamkhed assembly constituency. "This is how bogus identities are created. Based on them, electoral rolls are being revised as per their own convenience," he claimed.
The NCP (SP) leader also alleged that, despite being an autonomous body, the state election commission has given the responsibility of managing its website to a BJP office bearer, Devang Dave. "We are of the firm opinion that Dave took the MLAs of that constituency into confidence to decide whose name to include in the list and whose name to be excluded," he claimed.
In response, Dave suggested Pawar work for the people to win their hearts instead of making what he called baseless allegations.
Meanwhile, Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant alleged that 655,709 votes were added to the electoral rolls in just four days between October 16 and October 19 last year. He presented data shared by the state election commission during this period to support his claim.
According to the data, there were 92,943,890 registered voters in Maharashtra up to the Lok Sabha elections in April-May 2024. By August 30, 2024, ahead of the state assembly elections, the number of voters increased to 95,374,302, which means 2.4 million new voters were added during this period, Sawant said. The day the assembly elections were announced on October 15, 2024, the number of registered voters stood at 96,369,410, he added....
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