Akhilesh claims BJP conspiring toregister outsiders as voters in UP
Lucknow, Nov. 14 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of hatching a conspiracy to bring people from other states and enrol them as voters in Uttar Pradesh, linking the alleged plan to the ongoing controversy over "missing" Hindu voters.
Addressing a press conference at the SP state headquarters in Lucknow on Friday, Yadav said the BJP had convened key organisational meetings in the state specifically to prepare for the issue of '1.27 crore missing Hindu voters' raised by chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
"If it is true that 1.27 crore Hindu voters are missing, that is precisely why this meeting is taking place," he said.
"The BJP is preparing regarding those 'shifting' voters, voters deleted due to relocation, or instances where fraudulent names were added," Yadav said.
He alleged that the ruling party planned to bring individuals from Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and possibly other places to register them on the Uttar Pradesh electoral rolls. He claimed the exercise involved "underground or unregistered elements" and warned that voters would face mismatched lists inside and outside polling booths, forcing them to search for their names elsewhere.
"This is all a big conspiracy by the BJP," he asserted.
Recently, chief minister Yogi Adityanath claimed that 1.27 crore Hindu voters were missing from the state's electoral rolls.
The chief minister had told a private channel that the number of Muslim voters had risen by 1.65% and pointed to discrepancies between panchayat and assembly rolls, saying 66 lakh voters listed in panchayat lists were absent from assembly rolls.
The SP national president also claimed that, "it seems that the UP CM has been scolded by the Election Commission and now he won't talk about the missing 1.27 crore voters."
Yadav thanked PDA volunteers and workers for protecting their votes and sharing information regularly. PDA, a term coined by him, stands for Pichhda (backward classes/OBCs), Dalit and Alpsankhyak (minorities). He said the real battle would be fought at the booth level and that if PDA praharis (booth in-charges) succeeded, the party would win. He also asked party workers to avoid negative campaigning.
BJP's chief state spokesperson Dinesh Pratap Singh said, "Based on feedback from party workers, an assessment of missing voters has been made. The issue was also addressed at the party's meeting on SIR today (Friday). Akhilesh Yadav need not worry."
"The BJP has workers in every state and across the country. Meanwhile, Akhilesh Yadav's party is confined to UP only. So, he will not be able to understand the scenario of party workers assigned duties in other states during assembly polls.
In assembly polls in West Bengal also, BJP workers from Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the country were assigned tasks," he added....
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