Yadav added that all honest and truthful officers who refused to partake in the “target of fake voting given by the BJP office” should be praised.In another post earlier with photographs, Yadav claimed that police personnel were checking voters’ IDs in the Milkipur constituency, where polling is underway for the assembly by-election, to “create fear” among them and urged the Election Commission to immediately remove them.In a post on X, Yadav shared a picture of a police officer checking the ID card of a person outside a polling booth.”The Election Commission should immediately take cognisance of the pictures related to this news that Ayodhya Police is checking the ID cards of voters in Milkipur, in which senior police officers are also involved,” Yadav said in his post in Hindi.”This is a murder of democracy by indirectly influencing voting by creating fear among voters. Such people should be removed immediately and punitive action should be taken,” he said.Ayodhya Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Raj Karan Nayyar said the picture shows police personnel verifying the ID card of a polling agent. He asserted that law enforcement officers are not checking voters’ identification documents.Yadav also posted another video on X, claiming another case of fake voting in Rai Patti Amaniganj. “The person casting fake votes in Rai Patti Amaniganj in the Milkipur by-election has made it clear how the officials in the BJP government are involved in rigging. Does the Election Commission need any more proof?” the SP chief said in his post.In Milkipur, it is a two-way contest in the assembly bypoll between SP’s Ajit Prasad and the BJP’s Chandrabhanu Paswan. Ten candidates are in the fray in total. In the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, Milkipur was the only assembly seat the BJP lost in Ayodhya district.The bypoll was necessitated as SP’s Awadhesh Prasad vacated the Milkipur seat after winning the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Even as the SP is looking to retain the seat, the BJP sees the election as an opportunity to avenge its loss in Faizabad.
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