Electoral scene

Review meetings and feedback from state after state show that the controversial Agnipath scheme hit the BJP’s poll fortunes, even as the party is busy in its social media campaign to defend the introduction of short-term extendable recruitment to the armed forces. https://theprint.in/politics/bjps-reports-pinpoint-agnipath-as-factor-in-ls-setbacks-across-states-cadres-want-review-of-scheme/2167109/ 

by SHANKER ARNIMESH

देश में फिर होंगे Lokshabha Election,मानसून के बाद चुनाव आयोग करेगा तरीखों का ऐलान https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF57BQv5TBo  Jun 21, 2024 INDIA

These are the major grounds to question the integrity of General Election - 2024.. https://thewire.in/government/the-2024-lok-sabha-election-is-a-tale-of-egregious-errors-and-wanton-violations The 2024 Lok Sabha Election is a Tale of Egregious Errors and Wanton Violations
M.G. Devasahayam: ECI directed state chief electoral officers to mandatorily verify VVPAT paper slips in only one randomly selected polling station in each assembly constituency...This being around 0.5% sample size which is pathetically low, defeated the very object of installing VVPATs in all EVMs which tantamount to non-implementation of Supreme Court Order... SC had just increased the sample size from a microscopic 0.5% to miniscule 2 % whereas the demand was for a reasonable 30% to 50% based on sound statistical principles. E2E verifiability had thus been intentionally denied, a typical case of ‘fence eating the crops.’

The 2024 Lok Sabha elections data shows discrepancies in almost all PCs...In more than 140 PCs, the number of EVM votes counted surpassed the number of EVM votes polled...ECI is unable to give any satisfactory response to this apparent fraud. Is something rotten in the halls of Nirvachan Sadan?

What the results of Elections India 2024 are telling us https://www.southasiamonitor.org/spotlight/what-results-elections-india-2024-are-telling-us#google_vignette  Wajahat Habibullah Jun 12, 2024 The last ten years of BJP rule in the country have exacerbated social tensions. All sections of Indian society need reassurance not for the enjoyment of special privileges, except that which is provided in the Constitution, but in each citizen being assured of freedom from economic, social, or political discrimination on whatever ground. Otherwise, Indian society is faced with fractures which cannot bode well for the lasting unity that the country was born to. This is a challenge for the incoming government.

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Read more at: https://www.southasiamonitor.org/spotlight/what-results-elections-india-2024-are-telling-us

https://x.com/mr_mayank/status/1800879955934654615?t=kWgEai-msYKV8bs0nMfq3A&s=08 

Remember how Shivsena UBT candidate from NW Mumbai was declared lost mysteriously by only 48 votes?

It’s been 8 days since results but no FIR registered yet despite multiple complaints

Mumbai Police is now alleging that Election Commission’s RO is not letting them register an FIR

Apparently CCTV cameras are also missing & RO is not cooperating with Mumbai Police.

SS UBT’s Amol Kirtikar was leading on most of the phases but suddenly Shinde Sena candidate was declared winner

Prior to that, SS candidate’s relative was caught using phone inside counting centre, yet no FIR registered yet.

With so many cases of such rigging coming up, will Supreme Court intervene atleast now?

Shinde Sena candidate won by 48 votes: Rival candidates allege foul play in Mumbai North West https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/mumbai-north-west-election-results-2024-maharashtra-mumbai-north-west-lok-sabha-elections-poll-result-updates-amol-gajanan-kirtikar-ssubt-ravindra-dattaram-waikar-ss/articleshow/110671741.cms
Question lack of CCTV footage, presence of ‘Waikar's kin’ in counting area

WA: LJ:  The election commission RO’s fishy behaviour for the 2 hours when no rounds were declared after kirtikar’s lead and finally Waikar was declared, is extremely suspicious. Also they were relying on cctv footage to show all this, the phone calls and their refusal to provide any information, declare, register people’s objections. Now they are not even providing the footage.

The election commission has played big mischief these elections in some constituencies, we need to hold them accountable. How can the cctv footage disappear? And when they were asked to register complaints on the spot during counting by several candidates they did not take them into consideration and proceeded to declare.

https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/switch-parties-or-go-to-jail-maharashtra-shiv-sena-leader-ravindra-vaikar-was-left-options-after-ed-case-clarifies-11715445213579.html  
'Switch parties or go to jail...': Shiv Sena leader Ravindra Vaikar recalls situation after ED case, later clarifies
 11 May 2024,

Ravindra Waikar: Haven’t left Shiv Sena so can’t be disqualified as MLA https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/ravindra-waikarO-havent-left-shiv-sena-so-cant-be-disqualified-as-mla-23348549 
Updated on: 11 May,2024 Speaking with reporters at his election campaign office in Jogeshwari on Thursday, Waikar said, “After allegations were made against me [in connection with the construction of a luxury hotel], I met Economic Offences Wing and Enforcement Directorate officials and explained how the allegations were false. Later, I met Uddhav-ji thrice and told him we needed to find a way out. I even told him the only way to solve the problem was to call the Prime Minister. Uddhav-ji replied that he couldn’t do anything about it and would have to deal with it myself.”

Double blow for Uddhav: Loyalist joins Shinde camp, another mouths discontent https://www.indiatoday.in/india-today-insight/story/double-blow-for-uddhav-loyalist-joins-shinde-camp-another-mouths-discontent-2516448-2024-03-18 
MLA and former minister Ravindra Waikar’s exit brings the Shiv Sena (UBT)’s strength in the Maharashtra assembly down to 15

https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/national/2024/01/29/bom22-mh-ed-waikar.html The money laundering probe of the ED stems from an FIR of Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai Police in which it was alleged that Waikar illegally obtained approval for the construction of a five star hotel on a civic plot reserved for a garden.
As per the FIR, this caused a huge loss to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
The ED had conducted searches at seven locations, including premises of MLA Waikar and some of his partners, as part of the probe.

How Mumbai Voted - Factors That Determined Seat Results  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpu8nsRl26Y | Lok Sabha Elections CNBC-TV18
Jun 5, 2024 #electionresults #loksabhapolls #countingdaywithnews18
The INDIA Alliance has won four out of the six Lok Sabha seats in Mumbai but the contests this time were not as one-sided. Hormaz Fatakia takes a look and also observes two factors that could've played a key role in the outcome.