Accusing the Election Commission of India (ECI) of tampering with the voter data in the recently concluded Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024, state Congress chief Nana Patole on Friday wrote to the poll body seeking to know how the turnout increased by 7.83 percentage points after the official polling time had ended.

According to news agency ANI, Patole, in a letter to the Chief Electoral Officer, has raised questions over electronic voting machines (EVMs) and said that public "sentiment" has become "extremely intense" as there is a huge "scam" in the percentage of votes polled in the assembly elections.