Oppn unites over ‘vote chori’, plans march in city on Nov 1

After taking up the issue of alleged voter list fudging directly with the Election Commission (EC), political parties, mainly the opposition, have decided to take the matter to the people. Questioning the integrity of the poll body, they will hit the Mumbai streets on November 1 ina march similar to the one led by Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi in August.

- Faisal Malik

Allthe senior leaders such as Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray, Raj Thackeray and Harshwardhan Sapkal are expected to participate in the march, which will be the first such protest against the EC in Maharashtra. The details of the march will be finalised by the senior leaders in the coming days.

The announcement was made by the opposition leaders on Sunday afternoon in an interaction attended by Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut, former state NCP (SP) president Jayant Patil, Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant, MNS leader Bala Nandgaonkar and CPI leader Prakash Reddy among others. This is the third time that political parties have put upa united front against the EC and charged it with being “a slave of the BJP-led central government”.