NEW DELHI:
Akhilesh Yadav
on Friday asked his
party workers
to remain “fully alert, vigilant and cautious” during the final phase of voting and till the counting of votes is over. Taking an apparent dig at BJP by referring to the rigging of
Chandigarh mayoral elections
, Yadav further asked his party workers to not get “misled by BJP”.
“Today I am making an extremely important appeal to you.
All of you should remain fully alert, vigilant and cautious during the voting tomorrow and also in the days after the voting, till the counting of votes is over and you receive the certificate of victory. Do not get misled by the BJP,” he said in a post on X.
Cautioning the party workers of any possible “rigging” in the counting of votes, Yadav said, “Remember, those BJP members who can have the audacity to rig the Chandigarh mayor election in front of the cameras installed by the court, can resort to any kind of fraud to win the election. That is why this alertness is necessary.”
The SC in February had overturned the results of Chandigarh mayoral elections declaring AAP-Congress alliance candidate Kuldeep Kumar as the new city mayor against Manoj Sonkar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Yadav also accused BJP of having plans to get “their media group” to predict a 300-seat lead for the saffron party.
“Actually I am making this appeal because the BJP people have made a plan that as soon as the elections are over tomorrow evening, they will start getting their ‘media group (media mandali)’ to say on various channels that the BJP has got a lead of around 300 seats, which is completely false,” the Samajwadi Party leader wrote.
Uttar Pradesh will witness polling on 13 seats in the final phase of Lok Sabha elections scheduled for June 1. The counting of votes will be done on June 4.
