After his party workers got hold of a truck with EVMs in Varanasi, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday charged the BJP government of sabotaging the mandate.
Rejecting the exit polls that predicted a clear to a sweeping majority to the ruling party, he claimed it was a move to demotivate the party workers so that when the BJP indulged in foul play, it was not noticed. “I want to ask who is funding this huge exercise and what is the monetary relationship between those who are conducting them and those who are telecasting them.”
Holding a joint press conference with Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party’s (SBSP) Om Prakash Rajbhar in Lucknow, Mr. Yadav said the 2022 polls were the last attempt to save democracy. “I appeal to party workers and those who have voted for us to guard the EVMs as the sentinels of democracy for three days.”
