Aaditya Thackeray alleges 5 lakh ‘ghost voters’ in Mumbai, ECI cites duplicate entries

Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray recently alleged that around five lakh suspected "ghost voters" in Mumbai were missing from both the draft electoral roll prepared during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and the list of deleted voters. The Election Commission of India (ECI), however, attributed the differences in voter counts to an exercise to identify and remove duplicate registrations.

Thackeray also questioned discrepancies in voter numbers between ECI figures, with the commission responding by stating that variations result from duplicate identification efforts.

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