‘Dead body’ threat lands Samajwadi Party in trouble

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An FIR was lodged against

Samajwadi Party

candidate from

Ballia

, Sanatan Pandey, after a video showing him threatening the district magistrate went viral. “If I’m defeated by manipulation, it would be either my dead body or that of the district election officer coming out of the counting venue,” Pandey can be heard saying in the video.
Following a complaint from Ballia district election officials, police on Sunday booked him.

Pandey alleged that in 2019 Lok Sabha election, he was declared the loser despite winning.