Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Sunday dubbed Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' rebuttal to Rahul Gandhi's claims on the fairness of the Maharashtra assembly elections 2024 an "evasive attempt to distract the public", reported the PTI.

A day after Rahul Gandhi's write-up triggered a political slugfest between Congress and BJP, CM Fadnavis on Sunday debunked the electoral "match-fixing and rigging" allegations through a newspaper article, stating "Rahul Gandhi has dismissed mandate of people as they rejected him", according to the PTI.

Addressing a press conference, Harshwardhan Sapkal demanded a narco test of Maharashtra's Chief Electoral Officer S. Chockalingam and the then Additional CEO Kiran Kulkarni to "expose the truth behind the alleged "vote theft" in the Maharashtra assembly polls.