“BJP wants to turn Election Commission into…,”: Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party wants to convert the Election Commission into its own party commission. Speaking at a press conference on the Bill moved by the government to remove the Chief Justice of India from the panel to select Election Commissioners, Akhilesh Yadav said, “BJP and RSS want to take the Election Commission under their control…they want to make Election Commission into a BJP commission.” Akhilesh Yadav accused the Election Commission of inaction when he had alleged that thousands of votes were cut from Samajwadi Party’s voter list before the elections. “I had alleged that thousands of votes were cut from Samajwadi Party’s voter list before elections. They had voted in 2019 but could not vote in 2022. There are 18000 such voters whose votes were deleted. They are alive, staying at the same place but could not vote in 2022,” the Samajwadi Party chief claimed. Akhilesh Yadav accused the BJP government of ruining the power supply system set up by the Samajwadi government and said that the power crisis looms in the state even today.