Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said Rahul Gandhi must have got his “poll fraud” script written by “Salim-Javed”, hitting back at the Leader of Opposition over his allegations against the Election Commission of India.“There are no facts in his statements. He contacted ‘Salim-Javed’ and got a script written for himself. It is only for entertainment purposes,” Fadnavis told reporters in Pune.Rahul accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) and BJP of committing “poll fraud” by manipulating voters’ lists. He iterated his claim in Karnataka on Friday. Rahul had participated in a protest rally in Bihar in July to oppose the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by the ECI. In the dinner meeting he hosted for the opposition leaders, the members of the INDIA bloc decided to take out a protest march to the ECI office in Delhi on August 11 against the SIR, alleged discrepancies in the voters’ list and other issues.Reacting to Rahul’s stand on the SIR in Bihar, Fadnavis said, “He (Rahul) says that there is a problem in the voters’ list. We also have been saying that there are some issues with the voters’ list, and demanding a comprehensive revision of the voters’ list. When the ECI actually started the revision in Bihar, he started opposing it. What does he want? I think he has found the reason he was looking to blame for his party’s defeat.“Fadnavis also took a dig at Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray for not getting a seat in the front row during the meeting of the opposition members in Delhi. “When he (Uddhav) was with us, he always remained in the first row, but now we all have seen what is happening. During speeches, he says that he would not surrender before Delhi, but we have now seen how much respect he has got (from the opposition),” the chief minister said.
