Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray led the Garjana Morcha in Mumbai on October 4, demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation and cancellation of Maharashtra’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls. NDTV’s named reporting and The Statesman independently described the march taking place. Shiv Sena (UBT)’s own dated public posts also carried the event, distinguishing Sunday’s completed protest from its earlier announcement.
The demonstration moved from the Metro Cinema area towards the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation headquarters. Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leaders joined the Shiv Sena (UBT) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena mobilisation. The Statesman reported demonstrators carrying the national flag rather than party flags. No independently verified crowd total is available in the material reviewed.
Raj Thackeray called for scrapping the state’s revision exercise and replacing electronic voting machines with paper ballots. Uddhav Thackeray accused the election leadership of undermining voting rights. These are the organisers’ demands and allegations; the gathering itself does not establish electoral fraud or unlawful deletion of any particular voter.
The BJP rejected the accusations. In October 4 coverage by IANS, Maharashtra minister Ashish Shelar said opposition parties accepted electronic voting when they won but challenged it after defeats. He also argued that parties now opposing the revision had previously demanded checks on duplicate voters. Shiv Sena minister Sanjay Shirsat characterised the march as publicity centred on the cousins’ joint appearance.
The Statesman’s report also recalled the Election Commission’s position that differing suggestions within its decision-making process did not mean disagreement over final decisions, which it said were unanimous. That standing position is background to the wider dispute, rather than a newly issued response to this particular march.
The reviewed sources do not establish that Sunday’s demands changed the revision timetable, voting system or election leadership. Party statements and the public mobilisation are verified developments; their competing claims about the fairness of the electoral process remain contested.