“The Wire publishes fake news claiming voter discrepancy in the 2024 Maharashtra elections, state Chief Electoral Officer exposes its falsehoods”, Opindia, November 26, 2024:
“Maharashtra’s Chief Electoral Office slammed the anti-India propagandist media house The Wire for spreading fake news over the recently concluded assembly election in the state which witnessed the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti storm to power with a resounding majority.
Naturally, the development did not sit well with the ‘news’ organization, which, in an attempt to feed its confirmation bias, on 25th November published an article titled, “5,04,313 ‘Additional’ Votes? Maharashtra Data Mismatch Between Votes Polled and Counted” to claim that the BJP’s victory was the product of some sort of rigging in their favour and fuelled apprehensions against the constitutional body.
Notably, it is unavailable on desktop after CEO Maharashtra addressed a letter to Siddharth Varadarajan who is the founding editor of The Wire and pointed out the factual inaccuracies in the piece and called it misleading while exposing their biased agenda. Varadarajan also deleted a tweet in which he shared the same fearing action from the Election Commission for spreading falsehoods……”
Read the full article at Opindia.com
