Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday stated Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, as an alternative of introspecting on the defeat within the 2024 state meeting polls, has been repudiating the mandate given by the individuals as a result of they rejected him.
The chief of opposition within the Lok Sabha is getting ready his excuses for future defeats within the upcoming meeting elections, together with Bihar, Fadnavis stated in his articles printed within the Indian Categorical and Marathi every day Loksatta.
On Saturday, Gandhi, in an article printed in a number of newspapers and in posts on X, claimed the 2024 Maharashtra meeting elections have been a “blueprint for rigging democracy” and alleged this “match-fixing” would subsequent occur in Bihar.
In a publish on X, Gandhi outlined the alleged electoral irregularities in a stepwise method — pretend voters are added, voter turnout is inflated, bogus voting is facilitated, and proof is subsequently hidden.
The Election Fee rejected the cost, saying defaming the ballot panel after an unfavourable verdict is completely absurd.
In response to Gandhi’s claims, Fadnavis in his article stated the Congress chief has been consistently “insulting” the democratic course of and the individuals’s mandate.
“The individuals have rejected Rahul Gandhi, and in retaliation, he’s rejecting the individuals and their mandate,” the BJP chief charged.
“It might be extra prudent to simply accept defeat for as soon as and introspect on the place you’re going improper, the place your reference to the individuals is missing, and what it’s best to do about it,” he stated.
The Congress chief is getting ready his excuses for future defeats within the upcoming meeting polls, together with Bihar, he charged.
The Mahayuti, comprising the BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP, gained the 2024 Maharashtra polls with a thumping majority, defeating the Maha Vikas Aghadi, which incorporates the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP).
Fadnavis stated, “So far as the Maharashtra election is worried, it was not basically a contest between the Mahayuti and the Maha Vikas Aghadi. There was one other issue: The Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan. What was this ‘todo’ (break) marketing campaign, established underneath the identify of “jodo” (unite), doing?”
It was creating misconceptions among the many public in opposition to all the nation’s constitutional establishments, thereby inciting them to struggle in opposition to the nation itself. This consists of the judiciary and the Election Fee, he claimed.
From 1950 till a brand new regulation was enacted, the (earlier) Congress governments straight appointed the Chief Election Commissioner, Fadnavis stated.
Out of 26 commissioners up to now, 25 have been straight appointed by the central authorities. For the primary time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi established a committee that features the chief of the opposition or the chief of the most important political occasion (within the opposition), he famous.
Referring to Gandhi’s objection to a rise within the variety of electors within the 2024 Maharashtra polls whom he known as “bogus voters”, Fadnavis stated the variety of younger voters is consistently rising.
“Between 2014 and 2019, 63 lakh new voters have been added; from 2009 to 2014, 75 lakh new voters have been added; and from 2004 to 2009, 1 crore new voters have been added. Which means nothing extraordinary occurred in 2024,” he stated.
In 2004, 5 per cent extra within the meeting elections than within the Lok Sabha polls. In 2009, 4 per cent extra; in 2014, 3 per cent extra; in 2019, 1 per cent extra; and in 2024, 4 per cent extra. So once more, nothing new occurred in 2024, the CM stated.
“The declare that the voting proportion out of the blue elevated is a big joke. Is Rahul Gandhi unaware that 5 pm to six pm can also be a polling hour, and everybody current within the queue on the sales space by 6 pm is allowed to solid their vote?” he requested.
Within the second section of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the voter turnout determine given at 5 pm was 60.96 per cent, which was finalised at 66.71 per cent the subsequent day. The rise was 5.75 per cent. “However are you going to cover that truth since you gained that election?” Fadnavis stated.
Beforehand, the ultimate voting figures would come late at evening; now, the 5 pm determine is launched, and the ultimate determine comes the subsequent day, he stated.
The declare that the NDA gained the place the voter proportion elevated on the final second is “much more laughable,” Fadnavis stated.
“Rahul Gandhi gave the instance of Kamthi (meeting seat in Maharashtra). However I’ll present the examples which he didn’t. In Madha, there was an 18 per cent enhance, the place the Sharad Pawar group’s candidate gained. In Wani, there was a 13 per cent enhance, and Uddhav Thackeray group’s candidate gained. In Shrirampur, a 12 per cent enhance, the place the Congress gained,” he stated.
Fadnavis stated Rahul Gandhi has been consistently “insulting” the democratic course of and the individuals’s mandate.
“The individuals have rejected Rahul Gandhi, and in retaliation, he’s rejecting the individuals and their mandate,” he stated.
“It will solely push the Congress occasion additional right into a ditch. He must introspect on why his personal occasion’s MLAs make statements difficult anybody to get an appointment with him inside a day. He should be conscious of which route he takes the nation and what poison he’s spreading by consistently elevating doubts in regards to the democratic course of and constitutional establishments,” the CM stated.
Fadnavis stated the defeat in Maharashtra has harm Gandhi and his allies.
Folks of Maharashtra won’t forgive Gandhi if he continues to insult their mandate, the CM added.
He attacked Gandhi by reciting an Urdu couplet about an individual with a dirty face making an attempt to wipe clear the mirror.
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