02 December,2025 08:20 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Aaditya Thackeray alleged several issues in the voter lists. File Pic
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday alleged that duplicate and names of dead persons were included in the voters' list.
He urged the Election Commission to extend the period for submitting suggestions and objections to the draft electoral roll of municipal corporations in Maharashtra.
Earlier, in November, Aaditya Thackeray had met senior officials of the State Election Commission (SEC) to also raise concerns about the draft voters' list.
In a post on X, Aaditya Thackeray alleged several serious issues in the voter lists prepared for the Maharashtra local body elections.
He claimed that the Election Commission had stated there were 11 lakh voters with repeated names, but according to his team's assessment, the actual number of names marked as repeated was around 14 lakh.
The Worli MLA further alleged that many of the names flagged as duplicates were not repeated at all, but were simply common Marathi names belonging to different individuals.
He said nearly 50,000 genuinely repeated names had not been marked by the Election Commission.
The former Maharashtra Minister also alleged the presence of "dead voters" in the rolls, stating that some individuals who had passed away years ago continued to appear in electoral lists and had even cast votes in earlier state assembly elections.
Aaditya Thackeray said his party had prepared booth-wise lists of such cases, along with supporting documents.
Meanwhile, raising further concerns, he claimed that more than 30,000 names had been added to the rolls after the cut-off date of July 1, 2025, despite the Election Commission stating that the master list would only include entries made before this date.
He questioned how these names were included and whether this amounted to an offence.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) leader also criticised the alleged shortage of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) in Mumbai, saying that people who could not read or write were being assigned duties that required careful examination of voter lists. While emphasising that illiteracy was not a crime, he said forcing such individuals to carry out technical election work was inappropriate.
The Election Commission was yet issue an official response to the allegations made by Aaditya Thackeray.
