Stop misleading people about EVMs, accept poll mandate: Eknath Shinde tells Opposition

“In the Lok Sabha elections, 2.48 crore votes went to the Mahayuti, which is 43.55 per cent. The MVA polled 2.5 crore votes, which was 43.71 per cent. Still, the opposition got 31 seats, and Mahayuti won 17. Should we say there was an EVM scam?” Shinde asked.

Shinde said the Mahayuti alliance, comprising the BJP, Shiv Sena and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar's NCP, won the recent assembly elections because of its developmental work, and the opposition must support the new government in carrying forward such work.

The former chief minister said the opposition must accept that it has been “decisively defeated”. People have shown the opposition its place and proved that they don't vote for those who sit at home, Shinde added.