In the wake of a slew of allegations of vote rigging, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Rohit Pawar, on Thursday (October 16, 2025), highlighted technical anomalies with proof within the voting course of within the 2024 Assembly elections held in Maharashtra.

He gave a reside demonstration of registering a voter within the identify of “Donald Tatya Trump”, together with Trump’s picture, based mostly on a bogus Aadhaar card, within the Karjat constituency’s voter listing, with a faux deal with, throughout an interplay with media individuals in Mumbai.

Calling it “Democracy Theft”, Mr. Pawar, additionally nephew of former Chief Minister Sharad Pawar, stated, “Many folks have taken out Aadhaar playing cards identical to Donald Trump’s Aadhaar card and made a number of faux ID playing cards.”

“Our IT professional looked for one such web site and got here throughout this web site. This web site doesn’t conduct cross-verification; the faux ID, Aadhaar quantity and demographic particulars have been used to create such voter IDs. The election officers are blindly conducting elections.”

Stressing on the rise of voters between 2019 and 2024, Mr. Pawar stated, “In Lok Sabha polls, 32 lakh voters have been added, 6.5 lakh voters per yr elevated or 54,000 per thirty days. In six months alone, after the Lok Sabha, throughout the Maharashtra meeting polls, 48 lakh voters have been added.”

On the strains of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, Rohit Pawar gave a presentation, citing examples of addition, deletion, and duplication of voters in Maharashtra’s voter listing. A day in the past, a delegation of the opposition met representatives of the State Election Commission (SEC) and Central Election Commission (CEC), elevating issues round vote rigging and aiming for honest elections to be carried out within the upcoming native physique polls. 

He cited the instance of his personal constituency, the Karjat Jamkhed meeting. In six months, 14,162 duplicate names have been added to voter rolls put up Lok Sabha elections.

“Our get together functionaries went to seek for them in these constituencies. We didn’t discover any. BJP workplace bearer had entry to the EC voter listing,” stated Mr. Pawar, including, “Say something you need, however vote chori has occurred, and now now we have proof.”

‘BJP workplace bearer had entry to the EC voter listing’

He alleged {that a} methodology was designed by a BJP workplace bearer. “The EC and Bharatiya Janata Party workplace bearer Devang Dave had management over the fee’s web site. Due to this, most people has misplaced religion within the fee,” stated Rohit Pawar.

“Before us, Dave knew the whole lot. Dave has completed the work of including and deleting issues. So, the Election Commission ought to analyse the voter enhance, present details about the rise in voters,” he stated.

He demanded EC to supply an evaluation of voter turnout, the explanation for the massive enhance in voters in every constituency ought to be defined in writing, official knowledge ought to be offered together with photocopies of voters registered and names excluded from the 2024 Assembly Elections to July 1, 2025, the digital up to date voter lists, the DLO diary ought to be made obtainable to official political events for inspection, and others.

‘BJP is poaching’

Mr. Pawar additionally alleged that the BJP has been poaching Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s MLAs and made a prediction that a number of MLAs will be part of the BJP earlier than the 2029 elections.

“MLAs of Shiv Sena and NCP are in contact with BJP, inside a blink of an eye fixed, 20-25 MLAs will go away. Look at Ahilyanagar’s NCP MLA Sangram Jagtap, regardless of Ajit Pawar restraining him from making hate speeches, he continues to try this.”