Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Sunday took a jibe at the Samajwadi Party, alleging that the party has been surviving on bogus votes.
Speaking to reporters in Lucknow, the Deputy Chief Minister said, “The Samajwadi Party’s bicycle, which has been running on the strength of fake votes, will get punctured in the future.” Earlier last week, in a heated exchange over the Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav launched a sharp attack on the BJP, alleging that the ruling party uses machines capable of generating Aadhaar and voter ID cards within minutes on election day.
Speaking at the Conference, Yadav said, “The BJP has a machine that can produce Aadhaar cards in five minutes, enabling them to create Aadhaar cards and voter IDs on election day. In this election, we will also buy and deploy that machine at every booth, which we learned from the BJP people. BJP can easily produce plastic cards, so we want metal cards to be issued instead. We will not boycott, but we will defeat the BJP together.” Meanwhile, Congress MP KC Venugopal on Sunday stated that his party is going to reveal the “serious malpractices” of the Election Commission of India in Bengaluru on August 5.
Speaking to ANI, Venugopal alleged that the names of many voters have been “excluded” from the draft electoral rolls for Bihar recently released by the EC.
He further said that there will be a get-together of opposition INDIA bloc leaders on August 7 in Delhi.
“There will be a get-together on August 7 in Delhi. INDIA alliance leaders will be there,” Venugopal said.
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