Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday alleged that the BJP government is preparing to push a Special Annual Revision (SAR) of the electoral rolls through the Election Commission y after the recent Special Intensive Revision (SIR). He claimed this would be used to manipulate the voter list ahead of the 2027 assembly elections.
He said rules were already being violated as Form-7 continued to be filled even after the SIR. He announced that the SP’s booth-level campaign would begin from Tuesday. The Kannauj MP alleged that after SIR, the BJP would conspire through the Election Commission to conduct SAR. “A big conspiracy is underway in Uttar Pradesh. There will be a large-scale conspiracy to include its own people in the voter list. It has come to light that people from Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh will come and enrol as voters to increase their vote count,” he alleged. He urged party workers and the public to remain alert to these tactics. He also claimed discrimination and injustice was being meted out to PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) communities under the BJP government. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav took aim at the BJP for allegedly circulating AI-generated videos to damage his image. However, after several social media handles began circulating videos against him, someone sent one to the party as well.
Addressing a press conference at the party’s state headquarters in Lucknow after a meeting of all district and metropolitan presidents as well as booth-level functionaries connected via app, Yadav said very little time remains for the assembly polls. He said the government should not play “children’s games” with artificial intelligence. he said he had specifically instructed them not to do so While acknowledging that SP workers could also create such videos.
Before the elections, the BJP is trying to adjust its votes in the name of annual revision.
