Actor Swara Bhasker blames EVMs with 99% charge after husband Fahad Ahmad loses

Fahad Ahmad, husband of actor Swara Bhasker and NCP (SCP) leader lost Maharashtra’s Anushakti Nagar constituency to Sana Malik of the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Fahad polled 45,963 votes as opposed to Sana Malik’s 49,341, ultimately losing the seat by a margin of 3,378 votes. Fahad quit the Samajwadi Party in October to join the NCP (SCP).

Fahad, however, has demanded a recount after accusing the BJP of manipulating the result. Swara Bhasker’s husband claimed that he was leading in Anushakti Nagar after 17 rounds of counting. He claimed that EVMs with 99 percent charge showed Sana Malik leading but showed her trailing in EVMs with less battery.
“EVM machines that were 99 per cent charged were opened and BJP supported NCP Ajit Pawar candidate took lead,” he said.

Swara Bhasker accused BJP of result manipulation.

Swara Bhasker echoed a similar sentiment, questioning how EVMs that were deployed for voting all day showed 99 per cent battery.
“Why do all 99 per cent charged batteries give votes to BJP and its allies?” she asked.
While she, too, demanded a recount of votes, Swara Bhasker said she would accept the people’s mandate if “everything’s in order”.
The Anushakti Nagar constituency has been a bastion of NCP veteran Nawab Malik. Nawab Malik won the Anushakti Nagar seat in 2019, 2014, and 2009. The NCP fielded Nawab Malik’s daughter Sana from the seat this time. Nawab Malik contested from the Mankhurd-Shivajinagar seat.
After Congress claimed it was losing on EVMs with a 99 per cent charge but winning on the ones with 60-70 per cent battery during the Haryana Assembly elections, the Election Commission clarified that battery voltage and capacity hold no relevance or connection to the vote-counting operations or the integrity of EVMs.
“The display unit of the EVM shows a ’99 per cent’ charge as long as the electric potential of the battery remains between 7.4 volts and 8 volts,” in this range, the EVM operates optimally, without revealing the exact battery percentage, as the voltage is sufficient to sustain continuous operations,” the poll body said.
Fahad Ahmad was the state president of the Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha, the youth wing of the Samajwadi Party’s Maharashtra unit. After graduating from Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh, Fahad completed his M. Phil from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has been active in student politics.
Fahad married Bollywood actor Swara Bhasker on February 16, 2023.
While announcing Fahad’s nomination for the Anushakti Nagar seat, NCP (SCP) leader Jayant Patil said, “Fahad Ahmad is a well-educated young Muslim youth and has worked as an activist across the country. People want us to give a chance to such leaders.”