Lucknow,

10 Aug (HS): Akhilesh Yadav, president of the Samajwadi Party, slammed the BJP

on Sunday, accusing it of being a global breeding ground for election

malpractice. Yadav claimed in a post on X that it was involved in both rights

denial and vote manipulation in order to bring democracy to an end. We will not

allow the BJP's attempt to destroy democracy to prevail, Yadav stated, urging

people to comprehend the ruling party's claimed mode of operation. He referred

to the ruling party as a university of corruption and a global institution of

electoral fraud.

The

former Uttar Pradesh chief minister claimed that the BJP manipulates voter

rolls with the help of some bureaucrats, adding bogus voters who support it and

removing names of opposition supporters. He also accused the BJP of stationing

selected people at polling stations to cast bogus votes, intimidating voters

with guns to prevent them from voting, forcing its supporters to vote multiple

times, creating fake IDs to enable fraudulent voting, and even replacing EVMs

with security forces.

Though

Yadav did not specifically address the assembly election, his tweet comes at a

time when Congress leaders have expressed severe concerns about flaws in the

electoral process.

Yadav

also said that the BJP sometimes ensures that votes cast against it are

rejected in front of CCTV cameras, and in other circumstances, district

magistrates are forced to change victory certificates. Yadav stated that

today's voters are saying no to the BJP. Earlier this year, Yadav raised a

similar point during the Milkipur assembly by-election in Uttar Pradesh.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi