Cong candidate accuses Patole of working for RSS | Mumbai news

MUMBAI: While the state Congress party was reviewing the reasons for its poor performance in the Assembly polls at an introspection meeting held at its Dadar office, the senior leadership faced serious accusations from its candidate from Nagpur Central constituency, Bunty Shelke, who blamed the state Congress chief Nana. Patole is secretly working for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideologue of the BJP.

Shelke accused Patole of conspiring against him and blamed him for his defeat. Shelke lost the poll by 11,632 votes in a close contest with BJP candidate Pravin Datke.

“He is an RSS agent and has destroyed the party. Thanks to him, the Congress fell to fifth place in the state. He had instructed local leaders not to support me. “Even though I lost the seat by only 4 thousand votes in 2019, he did not even suggest my name,” he said.

Shelke also said Patole’s entire focus was on how to become prime minister if MVA comes to power.

Shelke was elected as a corporator in 2017 from the constituency where the RSS headquarters and residences of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and union minister Nitin Gadkari are located.

Candidate Arif Naseem Khan, who tried to verify the burnt memory in microcontroller EVMs after the Supreme Court’s decision in April, said that he paid approximately 100 TL. ₹10 lakh towards his expenses. “The burned-memory half-controller in 5% of EVMs will be checked and verified by a team of engineers from manufacturers whose fees I pay,” Khan said.

Meanwhile, state party president Patole, after meeting the newly elected MLAs and defeated candidates on Wednesday, accused the election commission of stealing people’s votes by pointing out the increase in voting percentage in the last hour.

Referring to the data announced by the election commission, Patole said that voter turnout was reported as 58.22 percent at 17.00 on the polling day. At 23:30 on the same night, it rose to 65.02% and the next day, on November 21, it rose to 66.05%. This represents a net increase of 7.83 points, or 7.6 million. “The increase is suspicious and the ballot box committee should release video footage from polling stations where such an increase was recorded,” he demanded.

As many as 85 Congress candidates were defeated in the Assembly elections, while 17 candidates lost by more than 50,000 votes.