Officers acted like ‘BJP Workers’ in UP Urban Body Polls, alleges Akhilesh Yadav

TIL Desk/National/Lucknow/ Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has alleged that certain officials acted like “BJP workers” in the recent urban body polls in Uttar Pradesh, and said his party will soon provide a list of such officers and demand their dismissal.   

Accusing the BJP of “politicising” the officers, he said in a statement, “A large number of officers are working as BJP workers. These officers interfered (in the civic polls) right from the voter list to counting of votes.” The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had swept the mayoral elections winning the posts in all 17 municipal corporations last week.

Referring to the declaration of results in Mainpuri after a long delay, Yadav said, “Not only Mainpuri and Bewar, there is public anger in the entire Uttar Pradesh over reports of the election results being changed by chief development officers (CDOs) and other officers. Such corrupt officers should be suspended. Along with this, fast track investigation should be done and they should be thrown out of the job. Samajwadi Party will give a list of photos and names of these corrupt officers.”