Samajwadi Party claims identification of duplicate voters and plans submission to Election Commission

LUCKNOW — Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav claimed on Friday that his party has tracked down 25 lakh duplicate voters and will soon submit the compiled list to the Election Commission.

Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, Yadav said the poll panel should reward the party for uncovering the duplicate entries. He also expressed hope that the commission would replace the Director General of Police, the Chief Secretary, and the Additional Chief Secretary (Home) to ensure a fair election, predicting that assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh could be announced between January 6 and 10. The opposition INDIA bloc is fully prepared for the contest, he added.

Targeting Chief Minister Yogi आदित्यनाथ over the special intensive revision of electoral rolls, Yadav questioned how the Chief Minister managed to know beforehand that votes had been deleted. He alleged that the Chief Minister made statements regarding the deletion of 1.27 crore Hindu votes to spread fear in society and secure electoral gains.

Yadav accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of using the voter list revision meetings to plan electoral malpractice rather than correct rolls. Citing specific irregularities, he claimed that more than 100 forms in Lucknow were filled using the signature of a single individual, and attempts were made to delete the vote of the Samajwadi Party’s district president. He expressed apprehension that fraudulent names and voter transfers from states including Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand could be exploited to manipulate the rolls, reiterating his demand that voter lists be linked to Aadhaar.

The SP chief also criticized the Chief Minister’s remarks involving cattle-herding, calling the comments an unforgivable insult to livestock rearers from a public platform. He accused the government of ruining a cow milk plant and promised that a Samajwadi Party government would convert the Varanasi milk processing plant into a bovine unit.

Reiterating his support for senior leader Azam Khan, Yadav alleged that Khan was framed by the BJP and questioned the Enforcement Directorate’s action against educational institutions linked to him. Regarding his own proposed visit to Ayodhya, Yadav said the timing was announced by Pawan Pandey after consulting astrological charts, adding that he would visit whenever called by the deity. He questioned the motive behind sadhus and saints holding meetings over his prospective visit, asserting that many religious figures actually wish for him to come.