The Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) has accused the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) of targeting Hindu voters while raising concerns about duplicate names in the state’s voter list. The BJP described this as an instance of “Vote Jihad.”

Senior BJP leader Ashish Shelar alleged that in several constituencies, MVA candidates won by very narrow margins, and those areas reportedly had a large number of duplicate Muslim voter names.

“MVA and MNS leaders are accusing the ruling MLAs of ‘vote theft.’ Should the BJP then ask whether MVA candidates won because of the same ‘vote theft’? Should Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray then resign?” Shelar questioned.

The BJP has launched a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list a process that

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