MNS president Raj Thackeray on Saturday said he had been talking about 'vote theft' since 2016, and the Election Commission should have conducted a probe when both Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and the BJP's Anurag Thakur alleged voter list frauds, reported news agency PTI.

Speaking to the local office-bearers of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena in Pune ahead of municipal elections, he asked party workers to scrutinise voter lists carefully.

Referring to the allegations of manipulation of voter lists by Rahul Gandhi and Anurag Thakur, Thackeray said, "When members from Opposition as well as the government are raising doubts, the ECI should have investigated them, but it prefers to suppress the matter. The ECI will not do it, as it fears that the vote theft of the last 10 years will be exposed," reported PTI.