Lucknow, Aug. 5 -- Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday alleged that the BJP had "deliberately" lost the recent assembly bypolls in Bihar's Bankipur and Madhya Pradesh's Datia to create a false impression that elections could not be questioned and to deflect criticism over the electoral process.
Addressing a Brahmin Sammelan organised at the party's state headquarters here on the birth anniversary of veteran socialist leader Janeshwar Mishra, Yadav claimed that the ruling party had intentionally refrained from employing the "model" it had allegedly used in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal elections. "The BJP deliberately lost these bypolls because it wanted to check whether elections could be won without dishonesty. It did not adopt in Bankipur and Datia the model that it had adopted in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The BJP has lost these byelections only to mislead the people," Yadav alleged.
Claiming that the BJP wanted to weaken the opposition's criticism of the electoral process, he said, "Now they will say that opposition parties will no longer raise questions about EVMs. They have deliberately lost these bypolls."
Meanwhile, Yadav launched a sharp attack on the ruling BJP over the alleged theft of offerings at the Ram temple in Ayodhya, claiming that those responsible for stealing "Ram Dhan" would be punished by Lord Ram himself and would not be allowed to win elections.
"BJP leaders are hiding their faces. The donation box is locked from the top but they have dug a tunnel underneath. If anyone has committed the biggest sin, it is the BJP because they have stolen the offerings made to Lord Ram." mpost
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