Election Commission and bureaucracy functioning at BJP's behest: SP chief
LUCKNOW, Oct. 13 -- Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday accused the Election Commission and the bureaucracy of functioning at the behest of the Bharatiya Janata Party, claiming that many people have multiple entries in the voter list and constitutional institutions were being manipulated to suit the ruling party's agenda.
Speaking to journalists after offering floral tributes at the statue of Ram Manohar Lohia in Gomti Nagar on the occasion of the socialist leader's death anniversary, Yadav said the government was not operating in accordance with the Constitution.
The SP chief alleged that the poll panel's attitude and actions were discriminatory, claiming the commission had effectively nullified the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process for electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh. A fresh voter registration drive was now underway, discarding the earlier SIR exercise on which crores of rupees had been spent and for which the entire administration had been mobilised after extensive publicity, he added.
Despite the SIR process being intended to curb fake votes, Yadav said lakhs of fraudulent entries had appeared in the electoral rolls. In several assembly constituencies, individuals had been registered multiple times - some with three, four, five or even 10 entries. He specifically cited the Azamgarh Sadar assembly constituency, where a single individual named Vikas Yadav reportedly had 10 entries.
The Kannauj MP also claimed that the chief minister had asked the commission to increase the vote count by 200 at every polling booth. He further alleged that in the Sarojini Nagar area of Lucknow, the BJP had filled 100 forms using the forged signature of a man named Dashrath in an attempt to delete SP votes from the rolls....
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