Akhilesh sends voters’ deletion ‘proof’ to EC

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday submitted “evidence”, as asked by the Election Commission, to substantiate his allegation that names of party supporters were removed from the voters’ list during the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls earlier this year.

In a statement, the party said Yadav sent the “evidence” to the poll body through email, along with names that were allegedly removed from the voters’ list.

Yadav also sent photocopies of complaints made to the chief electoral officer, Lucknow, and the chief election commissioner,

New Delhi, in this regard, the statement said. He also shared a compilation of media reports.

Yadav made the allegations of removal of voters from Yadav and Muslim communities — its voter base — from the electoral rolls in September. On October 27, EC asked him to produce evidence by November 10.

“We have sent the letter and evidence through email and registered post today,” party secretary Rajendra Chaudhary said.

In his six-page letter, a copy of which HT has seen, Yadav wrote: “Evidence and documents that could be gathered in a week – about the wrongfully deducted names from the voters’ lists – have been sent (to you)...”