MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena(UBT) on Wednesday alleged that the online registration of voters is a scam, and the Election Commission of India (ECI) has become a "lifeless puppet working under the pressure of the BJP".
The Thackeray camp, in a harshly worded editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana', claimed that names of the dead are increasing in the voter list and the names of the living are being excluded.
"A 'software' made in Gujarat is being used in Maharashtra for this purpose. The names of those who have migrated are already in the voter list, and 50-100 names are being registered in each house. It is the game of inserting bogus voters in the list that is happening at present. The BJP and Shinde camp bought the election machinery and played the same game in the Assembly elections, and they are going to repeat the same game in the upcoming elections to the Zilla Parishads and Municipal Corporations.