Lucknow, Aug. 26 -- Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa on Monday told the Samajwadi Party to provide the original copies of all 18,000 voter affidavits, regarding which the party had lodged a complaint with the Election Commission of India via email. The original copies can be submitted to the office of the CEO, Uttar Pradesh, or to the office of the district election officer of the concerned district, or to the electoral registration officer of the concerned assembly constituency so that the investigation process over the complaint can be expedited, he said. "It is also requested that you obtain a receipt as proof of submission from the concerned office for the list of affidavits provided by you, so that it can be clearly established how many affidavits were received by the concerned office and on which date. Necessary instructions in this regard have already been issued to all district election officers (DEOs) and all electoral registration officers (EROs)," the CEO said. In a post on X on Monday, SP said, "The entire 2022 assembly elections, all by-elections were looted under the collusion and signals of the BJP in power. Like 'Dhritarashtra' (the blind king in the epic Mahabharata), the EC remained complicit in dishonest acts by silently supporting the BJP's dishonesty." "What action was taken on those more than 18,000 affidavits and the complaints voiced by the public? Instead, there were even reports of threats to the complainants, which are extremely shameful," the SP said....