The Supreme Court has dismissed the petition challenging the 2024 Maharashtra assembly election results. Earlier, on 25 June, the Bombay High Court rejected it as a petition to waste time. Now the Supreme Court has refused to interfere in the order of the High Court.

What was said in the petition?
Vikhroli Mumbai assembly seat voter Chetan Chandrakant Ahire said in a petition filed in the High Court that even after 6 pm in the assembly elections in the state, about 76 lakh people cast their votes. The Election Commission is not giving their details. Ahire had demanded polling for 288 seats on 20 November 2024 and the results on 24 November 2024 as illegal.

Prakash Ambedkar, a lawyer and deprived Bahujan Aghadi leader, debated on behalf of the petitioner in the High Court. Senior advocate Ashutosh Kumbhakoni on behalf of the Election Commission and advocate Uday Varunjikar on behalf of the central government presented the side. He said that the petition is not legally valid. In an election, people who are in line before 6 o’clock, are always given a chance to vote. There is no system to keep a record of such people and make it available to anyone.

Supreme Court also refused after High Court
The petitioner also made demands like reviewing EVM-VVPAT of all seats, looking CCTV footage. Along with this, the order of voting with ballot paper was also sought in future. On 25 June, the bench of Justice GS Kulkarni and Arif Doctor of Bombay High Court found the petition disqualified after a long hearing. Now the bench of Supreme Court Justice MM Sundresh and N. Kotishwar Singh has also refused to hear it.

Rahul Gandhi on Maharashtra Elections 2024: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi claimed match fixing in Maharashtra elections, which has received the reaction of the Election Commission on Saturday (June 07, 2025). The Election Commission says that unfounded allegations against the voter list of Maharashtra are an insult to the rule of law.

The Election Commission said, “The Election Commission had put up all these facts in its reply on 24 December 2024, which are available on the Election Commission website. It seems that all these facts are being completely ignored by raising such issues again and again.”

‘Trying to discredit Election Commission absurd’

The Election Commission further said, “Any wrong information being spread by someone is not only a sign of disrespect for the law, but also discredits thousands of delegates appointed by their own political party and discharge millions of election workers, who work tirelessly and transparent during elections. After any adverse decisions from the voters, it is completely absurd in trying to defame the Election Commission.”

What did Rahul Gandhi accuse?

In fact, Rahul Gandhi wrote an article in which he described BJP’s victory in the Maharashtra assembly elections as a match fixing. Posting the photo of this article, he wrote on the X, “How to stole the election? The Maharashtra assembly election to be held in 2024 was a bluprint of rigging in democracy. My article phase shows the phase of how it happened: Step 1: Stage 1: Digefies in the panel for the appointment of Election Commission, step 2: Add fake voters in the voter list, add fake voters, step 3: Step 3: Step 3: Phase 3: Phase 4: Fake voting 4: Fake voting 4: Fake voting 4: Fake voting Target where BJP has to win, Step 5: Hide the evidence. “

He added, “It is not difficult to understand why the BJP was so frustrated in Maharashtra. But the rigged match is like fixing – the party who cheats can win the game, but damages the institutions and ends the public’s trust in the result. All the anxious Indians should see evidence themselves. Themselves should be decided. Because the match will also be lost. Because the BJP will also lose in the place where the BJP will lose in the place where the BJP will lose. Fixing elections are poison for any democracy. “

Also read: ‘Match fixing’ in Maharashtra elections, Rahul Gandhi told how the election lost Mahavikas Aghadi, BJP retaliation