Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed on Saturday that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the Election Commission were conspiring to delete about 50,000 voters from each Assembly segment where the opposition INDIA bloc performed well in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

The allegations came amid the special intensive revision of electoral rolls that the poll panel is carrying out in Uttar Pradesh and 11 other states.

“We have received information that in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, the BJP, in collusion with the Election Commission, is making major preparations,” Yadav alleged, according to PTI. The Trinamool Congress, a member of the INDIA coalition, is in power in West Bengal.

The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said that the outfit hoped that the Election Commission would be impartial and would act on its complaints. It said that after the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, the party had given a list of voters who it claimed were not able to cast their ballots as their names were “deliberately deleted” from the rolls.

“Due to this, the Samajwadi Party was unable to form the government in 2022,” Yadav claimed. “Some district collectors had made remarks about the voters that had been deleted, but when we asked them questions, they had no answers.”

Yadav said that while the BJP won 255 seats in the 2022 Assembly elections, it led in just 162 Assembly segments in the 2024 parliamentary election, PTI reported. In contrast, the Samajwadi Party won 111 Assembly seats in 2022, but led in 183 Assembly segments in last year’s Lok Sabha election.

The Samajwadi Party leader alleged that the BJP had brought in the special intensive revision as part of a “conspiracy” after having lost ground.

He urged party workers to meticulously verify electoral rolls, meet booth-level officers, ensure eligible electors are added to lists, and report any irregularities to the party headquarters, PTI reported.

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