LUCKNOW, May 6 -- Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday demanded that the Supreme Court take cognisance of the vote-counting process in West Bengal and make CCTV footage public. He alleged that what Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee is facing now is similar to what his party experienced during the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

Addressing a press conference at the party's state headquarters in Lucknow on Wednesday, the Yadav questioned the fairness of the recently concluded polls, in which the BJP secured a landslide victory, winning 207 seats and ending the TMC's 15-year rule in the state.

"When court proceedings can be live-streamed, why can the vote-counting process not be broadcast live?" Yadav as...