Fact-Checking Fadnavis's Rebuttal to Rahul Gandhi: The Big Media Didn't. So We Did

Here's a breakdown of the chief minister's claims – from misleading percentages to calculations based on 42,000 phantom polling stations – that collapse under basic scrutiny.

Pavan Korada

Jul 10 2025

Here's a breakdown of the chief minister's claims – from misleading percentages to calculations based on 42,000 phantom polling stations – that collapse under basic scrutiny.

The media fact-checked Rahul Gandhi. But when Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis issued his official rebuttal, he got a free pass. So we did the work they didn't. This is the breakdown of the chief minister's claims – from misleading percentages to calculations based on 42,000 phantom polling stations – that collapse under basic scrutiny.

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