‘Yogi, BJP speak in support of ECI as they are involved in the scam’

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday hit out at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the BJP for defending the Election Commission and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging that they themselves were “involved in the scam”.

Yadav was interacting with reporters at the party headquarters here, hours after the chief minister asked the opposition parties to apologise to the nation for their criticism of the Election Commission and the SIR exercise, and accused them of weakening democratic institutions.

“If the Election Commission is involved in a scam and the chief minister is speaking in support of the Commission, it means the chief minister himself is involved in the scam.

The entire BJP is involved in the scam,” he said. Yadav alleged that voters who cast their ballots in 2019 Lok Sabha elections were denied the opportunity to vote in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls as their names were removed from electoral rolls without notice.

“In 2017, we did not pay attention as we trusted the Election Commission to be impartial and not compromise its credibility. But when the results came in 2022, I remember saying at our national convention that the Election Commission and officials deliberately deleted Samajwadi Party votes,” Yadav said.

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