Samajwadi Party Workers Who “Guarded” EVMs Face Police Cases Across UP

Lucknow:

Samajwadi Occasion employees throughout Uttar Pradesh are dealing with police circumstances for checking authorities autos getting into counting centres the day earlier than the counting of votes for the state election that concluded on March 10. 

Controversy had erupted two days earlier than the counting when Samajwadi Occasion chief Akhilesh Yadav, the largest challenger to the BJP, alleged that Electronic Voting Machines were being stolen from a counting Centre in Varanasi. Mr Yadav had urged get together employees to protect EVMs, or Digital Voting Machines, around the clock earlier than the counting course of started.

The identical evening and the subsequent day, Samajwadi Occasion employees had assembled in giant numbers throughout counting centres in all 75 districts of the state, and movies from a number of places had emerged of presidency autos being checked by them earlier than getting into the counting centres. 

In japanese UP’s Basti district, 7 completely different circumstances have been filed towards 100 Samajwadi Occasion employees.

“Samajwadi Occasion employees have been checking autos belonging to senior authorities officers on the day earlier than counting in an unauthorised method. We now have filed 7 circumstances on complaints by the workers of those officers. The sections embody these of hindering the work of a authorities official,” Basti police chief Ashish Shrivastava stated in an announcement.

A high get together chief in Basti has alleged get together employees are being focused by the BJP authorities. “4 Samajwadi get together MLAs have been elected from the Basti district. Since that day, false circumstances are being filed towards get together employees and leaders. We now have informed the district Justice of the Peace to cease this or we’ll protest,” Mahendra Nath Yadav, the newly elected SP MLA from the Basti Sadar seat, stated.

800 kilometres away, in western UP’s Hapur, the police have filed a case towards 6 Samajwadi Occasion employees who’ve been named and 30 unnamed ones, accusing them of manhandling authorities officers the day earlier than counting and stopping them from getting into the counting centre within the district.

In central UP’s Hardoi, 100 Samajwadi Occasion employees have been booked on March 11 by the police for comparable causes, and two named accused have been arrested this morning. A kind of arrested had converted to BJP-ally Nishad Occasion two days after the election outcomes.

Within the not too long ago concluded state meeting elections, the BJP and its allies received a complete of 273 out of the 403 seats within the politically vital state. This was a drop of 49 seats from the get together’s tally within the 2017 elections when it unseated the Samajwadi Occasion authorities.

The Akhilesh Yadav-led get together received 111 seats by itself and the alliance led by it posted a victory in 125 constituencies. This was a leap of 73 from its present within the 2017 election. This was additionally the Samajwadi Occasion’s greatest efficiency ever.