New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday questioned Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's claim that the names of 1.27 crore Hindus had disappeared from the electoral rolls, asking how the Chief Minister knew the religious identity of those whose names had been deleted.
"Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has claimed that the names of 1 crore 27 lakh Hindus have disappeared from the voter list.
The question is, how does he know that the missing voters are Hindus?" Akhilesh said.
He alleged that the BJP had earlier created fear among people in the name of infiltrators and was now raising the issue of
Hindu voters being removed from electoral rolls.
He warned that the absence of a name from the voter list following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) could also trigger fears over citizenship.
Predicting a decisive defeat for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, the SP chief said people would give the ruling party a grand farewell in the coming elections.
He also sought the Election Commission's intervention, alleging a conspiracy to remove names from the electoral rolls.
Suggesting a technological solution to prevent wrongful deletion of voters, Akhilesh said electoral rolls could be linked with identity cards.
Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Millennium Post.