Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader Raj Thackeray on Saturday alleged that 4,500 voters who were registered in Thane’s Kalyan rural, Dombivali, Bhiwandi and Murbad constituencies cast their votes in Mumbai’s Malabar Hill in elections last year.

He did not specify if he was speaking about the Lok Sabha elections or the Assembly polls.

“So it is clear that they voted twice,” Thackeray was quoted as saying by News18 during a rally organised by the Maha Vikas Aghadi along with the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena against alleged irregularities in the voters’ list of the state.

Thackeray added: “It is clear that there are lakhs of such voters in Maharashtra who have done double voting.”

The Maha Vikas Aghadi comprises Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) and the Congress.

The rally followed a protest march, named “Satyacha Morcha”, or march for truth, which was attended by Uddhav Thackeray, Raj Thackeray, Aaditya Thackeray, Sharad Pawar, Supriya Sule, Rohit Pawar and Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat, among others.

In the Lok Sabha elections held in 2024, the Maha Vikas Aghadi won 30 of the 48 seats in the state. The remaining 18 seats were won by the ruling Mahayuti alliance comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Shiv Sena group led by former Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the NCP faction led by Ajit Pawar.

In the Assembly polls held months later in November, the Mahayuti alliance won 230 seats. The Maha Vikas Aghadi won 46 seats.

The Congress and party leader Rahul Gandhi have repeatedly alleged that there was “industrial-scale rigging involving the capture of our national institutions” in the Maharashtra Assembly elections.

On Saturday, Raj Thackeray said that scrutiny by his party workers showed discrepancies in voter lists in Mumbai.

He claimed that in the Mumbai North Lok Sabha seat, total voters registered till July 1 are 17,29,456, of which 62,370 were “suspicious” voters.

In Mumbai North West, the total number of voters was 16,74,861, and party workers found that 7,231 of them were “suspicious”, added Raj Thackeray.

The total voters in Mumbai North East were 15,90,710, of which 92,983 were “suspicious” and in Mumbai North Central, 63,740 were “suspicious” voters of the total 1,68,148, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief claimed.

In July, the Election Commission stated that there is no category of “suspicious voters” under the 1951 Representation of the People Act.

Raj Thackeray said during the rally that local body polls in the state should not be held while there are “bogus voters” on the electoral rolls, reported Mid-Day. “Clean it up first,” he was quoted as saying.

Uddhav Thackeray echoed his cousin’s statement, according to the newspaper.

This came days after Uddhav Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray alleged discrepancies in the voter list of his Worli Assembly constituency.

On Monday, he had claimed that after the Lok Sabha elections and before the Assembly elections, 16,043 voters were added and 5,661 names were deleted in Worli.

The major anomalies included 502 voters with the same names as their fathers, 720 voters with a father’s name from a different community, 133 duplicate names with the same voter ID number, 643 voters with gender mismatch, 113 voters more than 100 years of age, 4,177 voters with an improper or non-existent address, and 3,335 voters living in 214 homes.

In February, the Congress had urged the Election Commission to explain how the number of registered voters (9.7 crore) for the Maharashtra polls was more than the adult population of the state (9.5 crore).

The Election Commission had said at the time that attempts to defame it by parties that got an unfavourable verdict from voters were “completely absurd”.

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