The Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on the Election Commission, claiming that recent internal differences within the constitutional body exposed a deeper threat to India’s democratic process. Akhilesh also demanded that no future elections should be held under the current chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, he referred to reports that two election commissioners had formally objected 14 times in the last 10 months to decisions made by the Commission. He said that in several instances, more than 100 votes were cancelled based on a single person’s signature – far beyond the permitted limit – and that signatures of individuals who could not even write their names were allegedly forged to delete names of Muslim and Samajwadi Party voters. He also raised the issue of administrative preparations for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, alleging that not a single officer from the PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) communities had been assigned key election-related responsibilities.
The SP national president described the developments as “nothing less than a conspiracy to destroy democracy. He also alleged that the Commission failed to act on numerous complaints filed by his party, including during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. “Democracy is under severe strain. This is going to be the last election in Uttar Pradesh.
“What bigger conspiracy can there be?” he asked. After this, your voting rights will be taken away,” he said.
