On December 3, the EC invites a delegation from Congress to review all "legitimate" concerns regarding the Maharashtra election results.

The poll panel has stated that after hearing the party's delegation, it will examine all valid congressional issues and offer a written response.

The Election Commission has called a Congress delegation to meet with it on December 3 in response to the Congress's concerns on the vote percentage in the Maharashtra elections. At each step of the voting process, candidates and their representatives are involved in a transparent procedure, according to the ECI.

Following the Haryana assembly elections, the grand old party also voiced some concerns over the EVM procedure. The poll panel has stated that after hearing the party's delegation, it will examine all valid congressional issues and offer a written response. The ECI reiterated that there is a transparent procedure with candidates or their agents involved at every stage in its interim answer to Congress.

The poll body also reaffirmed in its interim statement that political parties are involved in an open electoral roll-up procedure. According to the authorities, the Commission has promised Congress that all of its valid concerns will be reviewed further.

In response to Congress's concern regarding voter turnout data, the polling organization claimed that there is no disparity in the data, which is verified and available for all candidates by polling station.

Because presiding officers complete several statutory tasks close to the polling station's closing time before updating voter turnout statistics, there is a discrepancy between the 5 PM polling data and the final voter turnout. According to the poll panel, the ECI press note was released at approximately 11:45 p.m. as an extra disclosure step for the general elections of 2024 and was thereafter used in all subsequent assembly elections.

The Election Commission came under fire from the Congress on Friday, which said that the "integrity of the entire electoral process is being severely compromised." Following a discussion of the matter at the Congress Working Committee meeting, the party declared its intention to start a "national movement."

"The Congress Working Committee (CWC) thinks there is a serious threat to the integrity of the entire electoral process. The politicized operation of the Election Commission is seriously challenging the constitutional mandate of free and fair elections. More and more segments of the population are growing irritated and extremely nervous. According to the Congress statement, "the Congress will take up these public concerns as a national movement."

"Electoral malpractices" also affected the outcome of the Haryana Assembly election, Congress national secretary KC Venugopal said reporters.

The party's performance in Haryana has fallen short of all expectations, the CWC also admitted. The state's government should have been created by the INC by a wide margin, but it wasn't. Nevertheless, he said that electoral malpractices that affected the state's outcome were disregarded.

He said that the party's performance in Maharashtra was "unexplainable and shocking," and that the CWC had approved it. It seems to be a blatant instance of "targeted manipulation."
Nana Patole, the leader of the Maharashtra Congress, also wrote to the ECI to inquire about the reason for the 7.83 percentage point rise in voter turnout beyond the conclusion of the official election period.

"There are a lot of people who are questioning the 7.83 percent increase in votes. Long lines must have formed at the polling places after 5 p.m. on the day of voting, based on the vote totals declared by the Election Commission. How many state seats had lengthy lines of voters after 5 p.m.? Patole addressed the highest polling body with his letter.

Additionally, he insisted that the Election Commission release "evidence," including video. "The Election Commission's official statistics show that 65.2% of votes were cast on November 20 until 11.30 p.m. 66.05 percent was the official percentage that was made public the next day, on November 21 at 3 p.m. What caused the 1.03 percent difference between the numbers that the Election Commission itself officially released? In a single day, he questioned, "How did nine lakh ninety-nine thousand and three hundred and fifty-nine votes increase?"