LUCKNOW, Oct. 30 -- Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa has urged Samajwadi Party secretary general Ram Gopal Yadav to submit a complaint or provide details of any suspicious electoral registration officer who shared their IDs and passwords with political party workers. Action will be taken against the erring officers after an investigation, he said.

In a post on X on Friday, Yadav, also a Rajya Sabha MP, alleged that in Uttar Pradesh now, only officers who hand over their IDs and passwords to some BJP-deputed workers are being posted as SDMs. "These BJP workers in collusion with the voter registration centre (VRC) operator are engaged in the task of cutting SP votes and adding BJP votes," he further alleged.

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