{
  "id": 13350853,
  "title": "Aaditya Thackeray alleges 5 lakh ‘ghost voters’ in Mumbai, ECI cites duplicate entries",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/aaditya-thackeray-alleges-5-lakh-ghost-voters-in-mumbai-eci-cites",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-10T07:04:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Indian Express",
    "slug": "the-indian-express",
    "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/aaditya-thackeray-5-lakh-ghost-voters-mumbai-eci-shiv-sena-ubt-mla-10915295/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Free Press Journal",
        "title": "Aaditya Thackeray Alleges 24,000 Bogus Voters In Worli, Lakhs Of Names Missing From Electoral Rolls; Questions Election Commission",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/aaditya-thackeray-alleges-24-000-bogus-voters-in-worli-lakhs-of-names",
        "published": "2026-10-09T17:31:05.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}