"Maha election results not acceptable to anyone," says Congress' Nana Patole
Nov 26, 2024
New Delhi [India], November 26 : Maharashtra Pradesh Congress President Nana Patole refused to accept the Maharashtra Assembly election results on Tuesday, saying that the "EVM issue" is not being taken seriously.
"Whatever election results have come, they are not acceptable to anyone, not even to the people of Maharashtra," Patole told ANI.
"So we have brainstormed on this issue and if you see social media in Maharashtra today, the public says that the government has not come with our votes, so the Congress party has always respected the sentiments of the public," he told ANI.
He said that no one is listening to the problems raised by the people of alleged mismatch of votes, leaving a mass movement to be the only option left for them.
"No one is listening on this (EVM issue), we also went to the Supreme Court, they said to prove it. Public sentiment says that we give our vote to X but it is being marked in the name of Y, so no one is listening to the problems. So it seems except a mass movement there is no other way," he added.
Nana Patole also met with Congress President Rahul Gandhi and party's MP Ravindra Chavan from Nanded, to discuss the performance of state's assembly election, and the bypolls.
In Maharashtra, Congress won the Nanded Lok Sabha by-poll. But, surprisingly the party lost all the six assembly segments in the Nanded Lok Sabha seat to the BJP and Shiv Sena.
Ravindra Chavan of Congress trounced BJP's Santukrao Hambarde by 1,457 votes after a recount.
Meanwhile, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ravi Shankar Prasad criticised Congress, saying that Rahul Gandhi and his party should "learn to accept defeat."
"On defeat in Maharashtra, they are blaming the EVM. When the Lok Sabha elections happened and that gathbandhan won so many seats, were the EVMs okay then? And now 4-5 months later it became faulty?" Prasad said.
"They won in Jharkhand, so EVMs are fine? Repeatedly they are using the excuse of EVMs to run away from their defeat. Rahul Gandhi should learn to accept defeat with humility," he added.
