Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday (October 12, 2026) alleged that the Election Commission of India (ECI) is “acting at the behest of the BJP” and claimed that many people have multiple entries in the voter list.
The SP chief claimed that one voter in Azamgarh assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh is mentioned 10 times in the voter list. There are 10 votes for a single individual in the Azamgarh assembly constituency. Because the BJP knows it has made 10 votes for that person,” Mr, one individual will cast one vote, while the BJP will cast the remaining nine,.
Mr. Keep track | Anti-CEC row LIVE: Rahul Gandhi moves SC seeking probe on SIR; Opposition parties’ march stopped near Barakhamba Road “The Election Commission is acting at the behest of the BJP. The BJP gets a vote registered for whosoever it chooses. If you are a BJP member, the Election Commission will register you as a voter. If you are a BJP member, you are considered an Indian citizen. “If this claim is incorrect, let the Election Commission and the BJP prove us wrong. What should we understand about this SIR exercise? The SP chief also claimed that the name of Adityavardhan Srivastava of Gorakhpur appears twice in the voter list and the name of Shambhu Shankar Sharma appears four times in the voter list of Gorakhpur Urban constituency.
Yadav was speaking to reporters at the Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow before leaving for Delhi to take part in a march to the Supreme Court to submit a petition on alleged “vote chori” and against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Yadav said. “It is because of this that the agitation is necessary,” Yadav said, referring to the opposition protests against the SIR and the CEC.
