A huge furore has erupted over the mass deletion of voters from the electoral rolls. Opposition parties in the state — Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) — are seeing foul play in the exclusion of the names.

 
BJP state chief Devendra Fadnavis said he heard that an employee of a company involved in electoral roll work offered to delete names from the lists for Rs 300 per name. and MNS’ Bala Nandgaonkar, who contested from Mumbai South, has lodged a complaint with the state’s chief electoral officer Nitin Gadre, and demanded inclusion of missing names in the list. File pics