<p><strong>Mumbai News LIVE Updates: </strong>Amid political uproar following Congress MP Rahul Gandhi`s recent allegation claiming the November 2024 Maharashtra assembly election was "rigged", Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday hit back at the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, accusing him of trying to spread a "fake narrative" about the polls. Speaking to reporters in Thane, Shinde dismissed Rahul Gandhi`s claims of electoral rigging and EVM tampering as baseless, pointing out that Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance, of which the Congress is a part, was silent during their Lok Sabha 2024 election wins, where they bagged 30 out of the 48 seats in the state. We are closing the LIVE blog now</p>
