EC gives BJP, Cong one week’s time to respond to poll code violations
The poll panel on Saturday wrote to BJP president J P Nadda and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge seeking their comments over the matter by 1 pm on Monday.
Samajwadi Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said that the BJP and the Congress will not win any seats in UP IN the 6th phase of the Lok Sabha polls scheduled to be held on Sunday.
On Sunday, elections will be held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh. Candidates whose electoral fate will be decided include SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and Union Minister Maneka Gandhi.
Akhilesh further said that the BJP will win only one seat in UP in the 7th phase and final phase of polling on May 19. 13 seats in UP will go to the polls including the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat, from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking re-election.
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Accusing the BJP of doing caste-based politics and spreading hatred among different castes and religions, Akhilesh Yadav said the SP-Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) “gathbandhan” has decided to demolish the government which was formed on hatred.
He alleged that the BJP wants to win the elections through ‘Red Card’.
Speaking to ANI, he claimed, “Officers have been instructed to issue as much ‘Red Cards’ as possible to SP. SP-BSP workers are being issued ‘Red Cards’. They are being stopped from casting votes.”
He further questioned if the BJP was clean and nobody had any criminal background.
“Will Red Cards be issued to SP-BSP only? Is everyone in BJP clean, is there no one there with a criminal background who was issued Red Card?” he asked.
He also claimed that the BJP was conspiring to scare people so that they do not cast their votes.
Elections will be held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 seats in Haryana, eights constituencies each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, seven seats in Delhi and four in Jharkhand on Sunday in the 6th phase of polling.
Voting is set to take place in eight states and Union Territories – 59 constituencies – in the 7th and final phase of polling on 19 May.
The key battlefields among the 13 seats of UP are Gorakhpur and Varanasi.
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